This Is How Teens Lived in the 70s and 80s - Nostalgic Photos to Remember.
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- Take a nostalgic trip back to the 1970s and 1980s with these incredible photos showcasing what life was like for teens during these unforgettable decades. From iconic fashion and hairstyles to hanging out at malls, arcades, and roller rinks, these images capture the essence of youth in a time when life was simpler and everything felt full of possibilities.
If you miss the past or want to relive those carefree days, this collection is a must-see. Check it out and let the memories flood back! Don’t forget to share your favorite moments from the 70s and 80s in the comments below.
I lived in the 1970's as a teenager and it was the best of times. No internet, no smartphones, no computers. It was a time just before the storm. Now it's just a memory, but back then it was every day! New isn't always better.
I was in Nam in1968, was so happy to get on a plane and see " round eyed " girls again. SEMPER FIDELIS USA
Got to Pax River NAS in 1970 and had my first Hardee Husky off base. I'm 76 now
and will never forget that burger.
Our TV antenna was mounted at the top of a giant white pine with the rotary attachment of course. Still we were lucky if we got three channels..
I was in my teens at the time, but ultimately I have to come down on the 90s as the peak. It was that point where we had as much nice tech as we were going to get, just before it all tipped over. Add in the great music, a stock market that only seemed to go up, peace breaking out everywhere. I went out to Silicon Valley for the gold rush and it was the best time of my life. It's been downhill ever since.
I was born in ‘54.,The sweetest of days in so many ways!
Christmas times in the 70s were awesome!
It was less commercial. It still was commercial, just less so.
I was a teen in the 70's, take me back
I'm 67 years old now. Look how all the young girls and women looked. No tattoos and all natural beauties. Thank you to all the young girls in high school.
I'm only 66 but it was my coming of age time. Loved it all. Except the disco stuff. I'm a rocker.
We were so fortunate to have grown up during that time.
For sure !
so true
Yup. I couldn't imagine having social media when in high school. Would NOT have been a good thing for the not so cool kids.
@ yes you are right. I sure feel for some of the young ones these days and what they are exposed to.
Thank you I wish I could just walk into one of those pictures and be young again
I'd give all of my tomorrow's for a single day in the 70's.
I don't care how old I am when I get there. I'd set my time machine for 1965. To be young , also, would be icing on the cake!
✋ me too. Born 1967. Grew up Chicago..
Same! Born in 68 in Tampa. I would love to go back to a Kmart, Woolco Woolworths or a Publix grocery and just walk around for hours
@@jat6547 Born in 67' also. My time machine would be set for the Summer of Love but no Delorean available!
@ront769 yep. I was was born summer of love 💘 7/ 11 / 67
Born 1958. Attended over 50 rock concerts. Best of times.
@@mr.d.4175 loved the concerts too
AND ME ,BORN 58 BUT I GROING UP AROUND PACIFIC OCEAN, DIVING AND FISHING WITH SPEARS. EATING FISH AND ABALONE AND MUSSELS,, AND THE MOST,,, SURFING EVERY WEEKEND W, MY PALES FROM HIGH SCHOOL 😢😢😢😢😢
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Being born in 1967, I remember most of these things. It's sad to think that the world we were raised for, no longer exists.
68 here and agree. If people say under 40 could go back and live for a couple weeks, 70s or 80s they wouldnt wanna return
Women were real women and every parking lot looks like todays car shows.
WE DIDNT KNOW THEN WE WERE IN THE BEST TIME IN HISTORY !
In the 70's in orange county, we rode our bikes to the beach, brought a sack lunch, had access to organic produce all over the area and we spent time talking & laughing. We played cards, we played games and back then most of my generation were not overweight, not depressed or worried all the time. I am extremely grateful for those beautiful days!
Being a teen in the 70’s was a blast. Really the best of times! I loved my Hip hugger jeans and the cutest guys with their long hair, the Very Best Music and everything in between! 🎉😊
Grew up as a kid in the 70s looking into these pictures reminds me most everybody was outside when we could be and there was no overweight people much and everybody had a smile on their face very happy time to be alive
Born 1964, Thank you for the walk down Memory Lane..... I really miss the cars!!!
At the age of 13 I was able to rebuild engines, transmissions, carburetors, etc
My first love of my life was my 1967 Plymouth Cuda with a 440 six pack.
Please I want to go back
No fat people,no f***ING Tatoo girls were BEAUTIFULLLLL !!!!! 💞💕💝💗❤️
Also way fewer asshole comments...
We hadn't heard the word Skank yet!
Grew up in the 70's. It's great to look back at these pics. Man what fun being a teenager then. Free range for sure ! Not sure what happened but it seems like everyone was slim back then. Maybe because we stayed outside and played all day.
There was probably 1 or 2 fat kids in whole the school.
I'd go back to 1976 and never come back.
Yes, the best of times. And the Viet Nam war was over, most of our troops came home. Great times!!!
In a heartbeat.
Take me back to '77 !
@@johnschultz9023 l am going with you,..
Yep!
It was a great time! We were closer to each other than now. Our relationships were face to face. We were taught how to handle conflict, not run away from it.
Beautiful figures with zero tats.
and no nose rings
@@ripvanrevs Don't forget the green and blue hair...
@@tedg.312 and most women with children back then were MARRIED and not on welfare!
And no pj's being worn to the store or school.
No tattoos , no body art , no plastic surgery , no nose rings , no body piercings. People conversed with each other face - to - face. No texting , no smart phones , etc.
No kidney lips
so great, no cell phones! No internet -way better then.
Cars without computers, GREAT
My first brand new car in the US , 1974 Plymouth Duster. I was stripped with Electronics In ignition (hi tech) no a/c no PW cost $2,900.00 plus $15.99 sales taxes with $59.95 AM radio plus $35.00 registration and License Plate.
I'm german, born 66. We grew up in the Wiesbaden-Frankfurt-Area with many great US people and had a great mixture of US and German lifestyle. On saturdays we're watched Soultrain at our US friends with whole family. We all knew what a Holley 750 carb or an Edelbrock spider was. We loved the time in record stores. Life was pure fun. I have a picture with my mothers brown Camaro, wearing my first pair of tubesocks from the PX(Washington Redskins scheme) and stood on my purple BANZAI Skateboard. Greetings from Frankfurt, Germany
Great memories from Germany!
The girls were amazing back then! That's what I remember.
We have tons of women almost within our reach now but very few are ladies. Not as many gentlemen around either.
That's because they were raised upright by their parents
I know, fifty years later I’m still married to the same one.
@xltek1 You managed to find a good one. I did not. Congrats on 50 years!
@ thank you, my father in law said we wouldn’t last a year, fooled him!
Absolutely loved my youth in the seventies & eighties!!
I either walked , petaled a bicycle , or roller skated everywhere when I was an adolescent.
A time of innocence
In grade school, summer vacation meant your friends vanished from your life for months. No contact. When school reopened, it was like meeting them for the first time, again.
Wow the very best of times ❤feel lucky and privileged to have grown up during these years fantastic for sure!
The last generation of free range humans.
Civilization was much more mature back then.
Mature? Sorry, but this was NOT reality for most kids.
If we had the '70s spirit, music and fashions and today's technology it would be perfect.
And we were not at WAR. The thought of music,food and round eyed girls ,kept us wanting to be " lm getting closer to my home" Grand Funk RR
@@DonAbrams-hq7ln The first half of the 70's we were, but soon the Viet Nam war ended and most of our guys (and gals) got to come home.
Man I missem haha I remember taking my older brothers car when I was 13 or 14 after they went to bed I don’t think kids nowadays know how to live lol
I had my childhood in the 70s... I miss the simplicity of life, I miss the cars and I miss feathered hair : )
I was 20 years old in 1976. Then I joined the Navy, great times in my life, wish I could go back
Me 2, went to Tonkin Gulf for my vayka,at Uncle Sam's expense.
Kissed the ground after my cruise.
Similar here. Thank you for your service. It truly is appreciated. Yep, the 70's were good times back here, at home !!!
@@FreedomOfSpeech1776 I was 17 in 1976, joined the Navy Seabee’s in 1977, spent 10 years with them, I also wish I could go back ✌️
Did you have basic training in Orlando?
We were so happy then! No bills, just peace, love and fun!
Best years of my life!
Hey look! Girls without phones glued to their hands!
What a time to grow up ! How I long for those dayz ❤
It was paradise, living in Hollywood, music festivals at Griffith Park with free music by the Jefferson Airplane, Black Sabbath), always something fun and exciting going on. Just walking Hollywood Boulevard on Saturday night was so much fun! Pinball machines, the beach, KHJ radio - everyone was tuned into that station- Boss Angeles!
How do you know a "foreign person " made this?
The Real Don Steele, Robert W, Charlie Tuna. And later The Mighty Met 94.7, a little bit of heaven.
Those were the days. We weren't on the verge of being taken over by aliens and AI robots. Ah memories.
Ten Cents coffee in airport machines. Bought my first car , a new four speed 1975 camaro. Best times of my life, the 60's and 70's. Showed my two teenage grandsons picture of a phone booths recently and they went nuts!
Back then,l bought a68 Gran Sport after HS. The draft took me away and lll never forget that 400 cu" hardtop
with a Hurst shifter. God willing l made it home and she was waiting for me
2 yrs later.My dad took good care of her for me.
Thanks for the pretty pictures of the ladies.
And a few handsome guys, too.
No nose rings.
Or purple hair!
@@CrazyWhiteBoomer or tatttoos
I was born in 1962 so that makes me 62 as of today, January 4, 2025. I entered teen years in the mid 70's. It was all that as presented on screen and more. I miss those days. Care free and so much more freedom. Where I live there was so much to explore with fewer rules and more adventure. I tried smoking, Marijuana, and drinking between 1973-1980. the years of experimentation.
Those years seemed to be the one's where you could do or try almost anything.
I was born in '62 as well! The summer between junior and senior high school started it all for me. 15 years old, got drunk for the first time, smoked weed for the first time and did the deed with a girl for the first time. Not all at once, mind you, but it was one hell of a summer!
@woreoutdrummer1861 That's exactly what I figured people were doing back then, not necessarily at the same time though Lol
Happy belated birthday. I was14 when you were born. Never expected JFK would die and be in Nam 5 yrs later.
You were blessed to not be there.
With a history like that, sounds like
"Stone ln Love" by Steve Perry (Journey)
Alot of memories, I also noticed all the stores with cashiers, unlike today.
This is great to see Was a kid in the 70's c/o 89. Great times, We had smoking areas and often had a stogie with the Professors.. Good times ty.
San Diego was paradise for a teen in the '70's. You could go anywhere, anytime you wanted to and find practically no one else there. Parks, beaches, mountains, heck it was paradise for everyone! Way to many people now.
I know! I escaped SD in 2000.
That’s for sure
Back in the day, Kmart sold everything! Didn’t matter what it was. 👍🏻
@@anthonycassata5152 All you needed was a K Mart, A&P and a Radio Shack!
I was a teenager in the 70's. Graduated in '75. Girls, music, and cars. All at their peak and total fun. I think if the youth of today were to time travel back to the 70's and 80's and saw how good we had it they would start crying their eyes out and never stop.
Born 8-29-50 ... California raised // Standing above Regan Beach with my neighbor one summer morning back in 1974, on Lakeview Ave, South Lake Tahoe. Jim said to me, "Do you know we live in the best country in the world?" ... Sure do.. "Do you know we live in the best state in the country?" ..Yep.. "In the best town in the state?" .. OMG!!.. YES!!.. "On the best street.." We stood there laughing our heads off picturing an imaginary "X" where we both stood/lived. My rent was $168 utilities paid, with an unobstructed lake view.. with floor to ceiling - wall to wall windows nicely furnished + a bathtub! Do I miss the good ole days? Does Dolly Parton sleep on her back ~ !!! ✍)))
A number of photos from the 50s
agreed, those cars were not around in the early 70s. Maybe in museums.
Thanks for posting. I was in high school and college in the 70s. I particularly enjoyed seeing prices, vehicles, and what women wore back then.
love the pics and the music. keep it coming
Everything was better back then!😊
Aww the Good old Days!
There were very few luxuries in the 1960’s. Typically families in the urban areas, with money had a lake cottage, or took ski trips in the winter. Not many could afford such extras. But being a teen in the 70’s was fun. No long wait times to go camping with family or friends, and hitch hiking was both popular and safe. Air travel was expensive. I bought my own ticket after HS graduation in 1976, to hang out with my cousins in the Hamptons for a week. It was $450 round trip from Milwaukee to JFK. I cut a lot of lawns and shoveled a lot of snow to earn those dollars. That was coach class, but also on a 747 which I think was the only 747 out of the Milwaukee airport each day.
A little bit of stuff that had nothing to do with teens, but it is nostalgic. Girls with hip hugger bell bottom jeans and halter tops, great music, and you had to actually converse with people face to face. You memorized phone numbers, went to movies, went bowling, took a girl to BK or Gino's (in PA), etc. Was it a magical time or just magical because we were teens, or does it seem like the best time because we are getting older and would like to go back? It was definitely a more care free time, I think, than teens today experience.
Exactly! Today, it's gone nuts with cell phones, the internet, everything is so impersonal and disconnected, even in this "CONNECTED" world we live. People can't even speak to you face to face anymore, they literally don't know how to talk. It's all texting, social media crap, or nothing at all.
Just liked and subscribed........there is some fun stuff to see here...............................thank you Yesterday in America.......give us more
RIP Linda Lavin. Loved that show.
I didn't know she passed
@markdinkel-uh2je Just recently. Month or so.
I remember I was the only thing my parents had stress from...and they didnt need to, I turned out great...much better than the parents today have to look forward to...I think my generation is the last that actually had the freedom to do whatever we wanted, born in 1965, the very last Gen Xers but we excelled! Great Memories.....
One of the reasons that the past seems better is because we were young.
Now we are old and that hurts very much
That is the curse of old age. We lived in a time before technology took over with cell phones, computers, internet, corporate greed. The Dow Jones was below 1000 points. Now it's just a nightmare. Todays' children have no idea of what life was like being outside all day, living in the sunlight, not in a closed room mindlessly scrolling the internet. I'm glad I was a part of that period of time, when being alive meant living!
I'm a 55yr old fart. :/
@@gilbertflores4341 I`m a 75 year old fart and miss those times.
We used to go to Sambos everyweek after church. It was awesome!
In 1983 I was 11 years old I wish I could go back 😢
I was twenty and wish I could go back!😊
Back in days of real music ............ romance .................. delicious food .................. exciting travel ...................... entertaining movies .................... etc
Put those together and you have an evening of dinner & dancing. Now that was a date night!
Outstanding!
GOOOD VIDEO BRO! I REALY ENJOY!
We miss those days big time 😂😂😂
The seats candy counter was great!
Sears and the popcorn smelled great.
The McDonald's pic had all 50s cars in it. "Hey Mel, kiss my grits!" Loved that show! I remember getting separated from mom in Wool- Co ( I think) when I was around 3 and telling her she was lost.😊
Yes. 15 cents was not the price for a Mc Burger in the 1970's.
Really enjoyed watching your video. Takes me back to the days in 1970's when i was young and got my first car in 1977, , which was a 1975 Plymouth Duster, green with a dark green vinyl top. I kept it for a very long time until around the late 1990''s and by that time just too many mechanical problems.
Yeh, l remember the death of my Buick. Years later she suffered cancer
because of all the NY road salt.
I grew up 60s-70s, and it was a blast. The cell phone ruined our culture. 🫤
Agreed. The cell phones are awesome technology, but have destroyed the ability of people to communicate face-to-face these days. It's all about texting now. We either text or use 'social media', or we don't communicate with each other anymore.
#55 pup and taco , listed as In n Out. Bring back beautiful stewardess' no men. Loved the mini skirts.
I grew up with a Pup N Taco only a few blocks from my house. It was right next door to the famous Big Donut or Randy's Donuts that you see on TV and documentaries about Los Angeles. Pup N Taco closed around 1975 or earlier. I was just a little kid born in '65.
I did find and buy a Pup N Taco
t- shirt online on a website that sells remakes of vintage T-shirt prints. When I wear it someone always comments on it.
Always wanted to be a pantyhose salesman.l confess legs were my
aphrodisiac.
That's the old Pup 'n' Taco on Rampart and Beverly, across the street from the original Tommy's
@@13_13k Pup N Taco was around until 1984 when Taco Bell bought them and turned them into 🌮🔔s
@@KreemieNewgatt --- I didn't know there was still one around until '84. Being from the Westside and I didn't get my driver's license until '82 when I was 17 I didn't get up to that part of town in those days. When I was in my 20s I was going clubbing and to parties up that way and as of 3½ years ago I live at the very East end of Westlake District two blocks from the 110 between Beverly and Wilshire. Wish Pup N Taco was still there.
It's not because it was the 70's. It's because we were 50 years younger 🥲 Stow it, Flo! Stow it, Vera!
Yeah, if You had the Money for a New car like that one shown in that 1st pic! in 1970 my 1st car at 18 was a bottom of the line Used '63 Chevy Bel Air 2door; No Air Conditioning, No Power Brakes, No Power Steering, No Power Anything!, Straight 6 with a 2spd Powerglide automatic transmission and an AM radio. I did buy an 8 track tape player for it. That was it!
In 1981 my first car was a 1964 Pontiac Lemans that could barely get to 60 mph!
Poor man's GTO. I WISH My Buick could have lasted longer. I didn't have a beater, so NY snows killed her.
Similar for me, too. First car; 1952 Ford Coupe, with a million miles on it. Radio, heater, that's it. Worn plum out, but I fixed it up and drove to school for several years. If given the chance, I'd do it all over again.
TG&Y! There’s a name I haven’t heard in a while… Gas Wars, remember when gas stations gave out things like drinking glasses?
Or stamps or some other type of trading game
These were the simple days sad how things have changed
I was in my teens throughout the 1970s and I remember all this stuff! But lots of big name stores are gone now and Kentucky Chicken went down the drain !
Do you notice that absurd number of people in any and every photo who are overweight?
But as I remember no one was dieting and we ate what we wanted as much as we wanted.
What happened?
Next time you go to the grocery store, realize that 90 years ago, 90% of the stuff in there didn't exist... Then also realize that 90% of the diseases we have today didn't exist then either. A lot of the shit (food, ect.) they sell us is banned in over 30 other countries around the world. MORE people need to WAKE the fuck UP.
Cell phones, the internet, that's what happened.
@ So people put on weight? Because of the internet? Who knew?
Today's processed food is not food.
Ladies were prettier back then!
They weren't fat back then. Same for the guys, too. Too many fat people today.
I spending time watching them until I forgot the Engineering class. My best friend was pre med. I worked at the library and restaurant during 1976 bi-Centinel celebration with president G Ford attend.
The genetics of the w eye t race have been greatly polluted since then.
I wouldn’t go back to the 70’s, with no help from divorced parents, all I remember is that being teens me and my sisters, we all had to work to survive. 😢 With no money, everything is or looks different.
I understand where you're coming from.
I was a teen in the 70’s. What a great time to grow up in. The music on this video was great. Was it Vince Guaraldi?
#24 Us: Dad! The exhaust is stink in here. Dad: Just open the windows! That was us 😆
Ah the 70’s. When the whole world smelled like cigarette smoke. I don’t miss that at all.
I do. My best friends parents smoked. Of course we always were outside, lol.
Especially on planes.
Summer 1977, about to tun 11, family moves from small border town to big city. I remember everything, especially TV shows, the NFL, the movies and the music.
I was born in a very small community in New Mexico and raised in another small town until I attended college in the late 60's and 70'. and most of what was depicted in this video did not exist for us. Instead, we had majestic Mountains, nice ski runs, but instead of Bobs Restaurant we had VIPs Home of the big boy. Our capital Santa Fe was a thriving art colony. from then to this day Santa Fe is also a hideaway for many movie stars. ZZ Top had a condo there, Don Meridith has a home also and many others.
Rah rah skirt, leather headband, & gladiator sandals = me in 1982. 😂
Damn, Stevie Nicks should have snagged the body guard!
That is how upper class teens lived, the middle & lower classes lived in destitution, below the poverty level but life was still much better then than it is today. Today almost everyone is a pathetic cell phone addict, they live in a toxic wifi digital prison and have no idea what real life really is.
Thank you for telling us about yourself.
Middle class didn't live in destitution
@@cesarnarro6013 Correct. They throttled the poor for their "middle class" existence. Get a clue.
@@cmertonhow do? By working?
@@cesarnarro6013 true, but my friends dad was a middle school principal, and they were just making ends meet. Teacher pay was very low in the 70’s, same for cops.
The rear facing seat in my folks Ford Esquire wagon made you feel like you were in a completely different car.
Remember Bradley's,JM fields, E J Corvettes, two guys, service merchandise, consumers distributors Herman's world of sporting goods Bob Kissler's sporting goods, Rickles home centers,John's bargains stores, wetsons hamburger stand, Stewart's root beer drive up,from New Jersey,great upload thanks!
No, sorry, I don't remember. LOL. Where was that?
We need a video about why we became a fat society and its causes. Everone looked great back then not a fat ass in the videos
Because the food pyramid and my-plate are a lie.
Exactly. Obesity is out of control these days in America. People sit around on their cell phones all day, there's one big reason.
Its gmo, processed frankenfood, engineered to make us fat.
Did anybody else think that a few of those pictures were dated wrong? Some of them that claimed to be in the 70's had nothing but old cars from the 50's in it.
Somebody noticed a Firebird listed as the wrong year. Sloppy timeline mistakes.
I grew up in the 1970s...graduated high school in 75 and got married in 79.
Iwas a 20 smthn in the 70s. !!!!! Great to c the ff restaurants,,,, but did they ever catch the HAMBURGLAR!??????😮
White AMX rocking a flame job in the California gas station at 11:17. ⛽🚗 Hopefully she's still out there, although likely with a different paint scheme.
At 5:57. Crystal Palace is a place in England. The car, that is getting filled with petrol, is a 1963 Morris or Austin. You can tell it is 1963, by its registration, the letter 'A' at the end.
Graduated from high school in Vegas in 1975. Best of times. Then came AIDs in 1980 and kinda ruined the mood.
The roller skates on Venice beach changed to Inline right after that.
Life
How did we let that world get away from us and become the mess we have today?
WOKE POLITICIANS who don't represent their constituents.
#39….Look how nice TEACHERS were dressed? Look at the STUDENTS!!!
Life before DEI. Its coming back.
Exactly. DEI sucks bigly.
@@santaclause2875 Right. You mediocre white men had all the opportunities in the world back then. Now, you just have 90%.