Would probably have helped a bit if the person who made this was actually around then. I graduated high school in '74. This ain't even close.

Pretty Woman? Footloose? Not the 70s......

Sock hops and poodle skirts were not from the 70'!

We did not have sock hops in the 70’s. This was in the 50’s. You have mixed so many things into the 70’s that were not in the 70’s.

A movie projector IS NOT a film strip projector. Get your images straight.

I graduated in 1978...Never saw anyone bringing 8 track tapes to school, dodgeball was brutal, I remember bell bottoms and elephant bells, nope never decorated my locker nor did my friends, I do remember the film strip being shown, no walk outs or sit ins, yep, I took typewriting classes, oh yes, we had a designated smoking area behind our cafeteria, sock hops were from the 60s not the 70s, although we did disco dance. Why did they throw in 60s stuff? Planners? WTF?

That guys doesn't know what he's talking about, all of us, except the bullies in class, HATED dodgeball, HATED it.

How absurd! This is the media/TV series version of the 70's. Cranking music and rocking out in the halls? What schools did that?

Belly bottoms?!?! It is was n shall ever be BELL Bottoms!!! Big mistake on your narrators part!!! Turned me off, dude!!

I graduated in 1979, and I sure do miss those days

Class of '71. We had dances, we had few greasers, but never ever had a sock hop.

I swear those that make these vids don't actually check to see wat went on in the era they're making their vids for.. especially the imagery.

Ahhh...no on many of those things in HS in the early 70s. (I graduated in 74') So many its hard to list them all. We did not gave sock hops and poodle skirts. We did not have widespread typing classes. Typing was a vocational class for those female students that were not in the college prep track. No to locker decorations, our lockers were simply a place for books and your coat. No to smoking areas. There may have been an area for teachers, none for students. Students were expected to go through a school day without smoking as they were legally unde age to smoke. No to fashion, especially the platform shoes. We did not have uniforms, however we had a pretty strict dress code and it was late 72 when girls were allowed to wear slacks to school. No to going to the library to look up textbooks. The whole intent of library research was to use other sources. Nobody in my school tried to snag a textbook, those were things you used in class and for homework nothing else. No to sit ins or walk outs. In my area, those were college activities not hs. Since almost all students were underage, such protests were hard to get going. No to note passing. We did that when we were younger; in hs, we simply caught someone in the hall between classes. No to dodge ball or coed gym classes. Gym classes were divided by gender and boys gym focused on developing skills for one of the athletic teams. Dodge ball simply was not intense enough in skill building. Girls gym was simply some social activities such as bowling or square dancing (with other girls). There is so much wrong with this video, it is hard to describe what is right.

7:48 It would be nice if the section of filmstrips were edited by someone who knows what a filmstrip is.

When I was learning to type I used "all" my fingers not just two, lol. And I still use all my fingers on my desktop keyboard.

8-tracks were more a 1960s thing. I was in high school 1971-1975, and casettes had already taken over. We had an 8-track as part of our home stereo system, but my sister and I had our casette players, and I had casette players in my cars in the late 1970s - I owned four cars during the 1970s, all had casettes.

Some of this is not the 70s

You show pictures of the 1970s but were actually from the 1940s to the 1960s. Most of the "1970s" was a carry over from the 1950/60s.

I loved dodge ball. If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.

The Sock Hop was NOT the 1970s. The sock hops were 1950s. Those passing the smoke from a "tube" where smoking Marijuana and not tobacco. There are more irregularities in this film. Quite a few. No one wore petti-coats in the 1970s. That was from early 1950s. I can't even watch the entire film.

Talks about film strips while showing 16mm projectors. Film strips were not motion pictures.

I was in high school from 75 - 79. Wonderful memories but none of these are them.

As a kid I lugged around those 8-tracks, and then cassette players...they took 8 D batteries and were heavy as fk.

Not in the schools I was in did they allow music during lunch. Actually most of what was on this one, didn't happen at the schools I had attended.

The decorating of lockers was a thing that we started in the mid to late 80's.

Dodge ball sucked. Libraries are still special places to go. We should teach our kids to use the library.

My high school did not allow decorations in lockers. What you showed where is the place for books and a jacket or coat?

Buying eggs then spending the night driving around with your friends tossing them at cars and houses.

Correct no sock hops.

Ahh dodge ball high school combat at its best before lawyers and the over protective to control. And when Portable had a different meaning, meaning your machine was under 50 pounds.

While talking about 8-tracks, it would help if you didn't show cassettes and reel-to-reel tapes like you don't know the difference. Smoking was never allowed at my high school.

In my grade school they made the girls wear dresses. I hated dodge ball! When the boys lobbed that ball at us it really stung when it hit our legs.

We did not use "planners" in the 70's. That's why they showed a planner from 2005.

I remember the smoking area when I went to highschool, it was between the lunch room and the hall way. At the highschool that I went to also had a designated area for the students who smoked pot. Ah, the 1970's, my era. Love from Marysville California

No, no, no. The only kids who looked forward to dodge ball in school were the sadistic jerks who'd steal your Ding Dongs from your lunch box.

Belly bottoms???

We weren't allowed to decorate the lockers... we had cassettes at school. The portable 8-track was a quick in and out fad. We had a 'Smokers Hill' (a grassy mounds where students could smoke) in the middle of the quad area. We were allowed to leave campus at lunch. Typing classes were done in Jr. High. Driver's Ed was required. Lot's of interesting elective classes/Clubs in HS... including Surf Club, Science Club, Ski Club, German Club, etc... (this was Southern CA).

Well excuse me but I don't remember the sock hops...we danced three feet away from each other until The Disco era came through with The Bee Gees!And while some of us rocked out with Deep Purple or The Steve Miller Band to The Osmond's and The Carpenter's! No poodle skirts but a variety of skirt lengths and platform shoes!Oh and McDonald's Big Mac's! I don't remember having a smoking place at my Highschool but I didn't smoke either!😊 "Have A Good Day!" 😊

At my HS (71-75) every boy had a pocketknife (or more if he was a trader), juniors and seniors who drove pickups had gun racks with a rifle and/or shotgun in the parking lot, where we listened to 8 tracks like Cheech and Chong, Alice Cooper..., and smoked... Without teachers or the principle Freaking Out. "Schoooool's Out For-ever...."

4:20 An appropriate time to mention "belly [sic] bottoms".

I went to started Jr. Hight School in 1974, at age 13. And for high school, I started in 1977 at age 16 - age 18. I enjoyed those times; I know there were not many dangers in school as in today's schools. Kids today will not know how it is to go to school without fears, sadly.

I saw the title of this video and got excited to reminisce, since I was a high schooler in the 70s. But this piece was a major disappointment. There are so many things that are totally wrong! Images are from the 50s through the 90s. Sock hops? That was the 50s. An open locker had a “Ghost” poster…that movie came out in 1990. I won’t be watching the channel anymore.

No Planners, no sockhops - graduate of 78

I see somebody had good taste with the Waylon Jennings 8 track.

Dodgeball was more popular in gym class in the '60s than in the '70s. I went to two different high schools in the '70s, and neither one ever had any students playing dodgeball. And neither one had students lugging around 8-track players and tapes, either. Belly bottoms? Where did THAT come from? Smoking areas for students in schools? Students weren't supposed to smoke at all, and if they did smoke, it was always where they wouldn't be seen by a teacher or administrator. Cigarette ads on TV were on their way out before the decade had even really begun. The last one was in late 1971 or early 1972. Petticoats had pretty much been done away with by the '70s, so they were rarely, if ever, seen and school dances had usually been eliminated, except for proms and football homecoming celebrations, and those were considered to be formal affairs.

I remember buying that Radio Shack 8-track in 76.

Initiation for Freshman, braces(railroad tracks), lunch, phys. ed.; library, study hall(auditorium). Algebra, Chemistry, Consumer Math, Science, English, Social Studies, Government, Band, and other classes.

Nobody used the word "groovy" in the 70s! That was the 1960s! Yes, I was a teenager in the 70s! Why dont you actually talk to someone who lived it?

As someone who was from the 90s "I don't think so Tim."

I learned how to type in the early 60s, never expecting to use it again. But, here I am today sitting in front of my computer typing out this message while watching the words appear on the screen. Typing may have been the best thing I learned in highschool.

Maybe 8 to 10% of people in my area where into 8 tracks. Most of us were laughing at them for listening to the only thing that sounded worse than am radio.

In 1965 the US surgeon General announced officially that smoking directly caused lung cancer (and up to that time there had been over 7000 peer-reviewed scientific papers published to verify that fact). It's mind numbing to think that the Education Authority didn't see this as anything unhealthy. We weren't allowed to smoke at school until 1974 when the school reserved a designated "smoking room" for students although it only lasted a few years...mondo bizarro.

Whoever made this video was not around in the 70's.

Sock hop? LOL

Did anyone else wear Ditto pants, Earth shoes, or crop tops? The guys folded notebook paper into small triangles and would hold it with one hand and flick it with the index finger on their other hand. It was very popular at my high school.

I was too busy in high school trying to learn to do any of that stuff. I don't remember seeing people decorate their lockers either.

Hated gym class n hated any ball game especially one that forcefully hit me hard anyplace on my body, ergo, flunked gym class 3 times!!! I was s hippie, then a glammer, then a high fashion diva throughout my junior high n high school life!!!

I was in high school from 1969 to 1973. The only way we could really do what we wanted was by going to rock concerts at Cleveland Public Auditorium where everyone was passing joints around so at least there was free ganja. When we were home we were typically being spied upon by our square parents. It was in college that we came into our own and morphed into true party animals.

I wonder how many people twisted an ankle or tripped on those platform shoes and the long pants they wore.

In UK we had weekly music newspapers. These were in newspaper format not glossy photo mags. The big three were New Musical Express (NME) , Melody Maker and Sounds. Aimed at the post comic, pre newspaoer reading age group. We studied these publications as seriously as 'The Times' and they were often confiscated in class. Mail Order record companies were our equivalent if Amazon or eBay.

I graduated in 1973.... I do Not recall smoking as ever being accepted when I was in school... did things change sometime in the 1970's...? smoking areas for students in or around schools?.. REALLY?,,,

2:38...I remember playing dodgeball during the '60s in elementary school. I once got hit in the head thrown by a teacher (unintentionally) by one of those little 7" rubber balls. No harm done. But the rule was to throw below the waist. Otherwise you're out. Also, if you caught the ball that was thrown at you, the person who threw the ball is out.

In my school we played a more intense version of Dodge Ball called Prison Ball. All I remember is it was more violent. My high school in the 80s had designated smoking areas. I have never been to a 1950s-style sock hop. Dang, im not that old!

Talking about 8 tracks and showing cassettes & dodge ball was middle school not High School - who ties this guys shoes?

Well.. this is somewhat accurate, but some flaws. The invention from William Lear (the one who developed the Lear Jet) had his 8-Tracks. Radio stations used a modified version for station IDs, PSAs, and those pesky adverts! The cassette tape came out in the early 70's thus relegating Lear's system for public use, obsolete. Hop Sock!? NEVER HEARD of it! They did have typing classes at my school, and one major thing what the local media back then sort of simply glossed over, was a major 'Code Brown' situation. Apparently one school staff member in the cafeteria had a grudge re money (but of course!) and poisoned one day the lunch food. As my school is to this day large, can accommodate about 1000 peers or so, about 80% of us wound up getting sick, throwing up all over the place and producing massive amounts of diarrhoea, especially in the original building,the admin building. It was a stench hell, I was among those who got ill! The stench did not help but made things worse. I started puking my guts out! They had a special curfew that once in that building, as a record number of ambulances were out on Texas Ave. about 20 to 30 within one block, carting my sick peers all over LA County, I almost wound up in one of them as well! I pleaded to their triage, that as I only lived one block from campus to allow me to go home. Fortunately this one medic capitulated and I walked home albeit that I did indeed have a public urgent diarrhoea accident more than half way home! The next day was a day of diarrhoea, stomach pains, and vomiting. But as I had two nights of virtually no sleep, the following early afternoon, the symptoms began to wane. My dad almost was going to have me see my paediatrician, but that turned out not to have been necessary. I stayed an extra day home just to make sure I was over with that food poisoning incident before returning back to class. I shall never forget this major chapter in my high school days! (BTW, what happened to the rest of this documentary?)

While some of these videos are a bit outdated, all I need to look at are my high school year book pictures and yeah it’s pretty accurate with my experiences.

Head to the library and discover for yourself what someone already knew. The contribution of a library is previous knowledge upon which to build, which means we no longer have to discover for ourselves what was already discovered before we could expend on that knowledge.

I remember in high school in the 70s we used to breathe this gas called "Oxygen" and we would drink liquids in order to stay hydrated. It was a different time the 70s.

Platform shoes--which I never would have worn, ever--and filmstrips were way out of style by the time I got to high school in the latter seventies. I didn't decorate my locker, participate in protests--I don't even remember any protests--or take any typing classes. Smoking has always been disgusting, and Sock Hops and clubs have too many people in them. As for daily planners, I've never used one--not even on my phone. So, I guess that 4 Thing Every High Schooler Did. 1977 - 1981

Yeah, which screwed up high school had a designated smoking area for students?

You could look in the index at the back no need to look through the whole set of Encyclopedia's no different than typing into google but no adds to sift through.

Look, I get and understand that the '70s wanted to BE the '50s more than ANYTHING after the disastrous late '60s. This does NOT mean taking clips FROM the '50s and portraying them as being FROM the '70s. They aren't. And neither are the inserts from the 1980's and '90's. As far as the platform shoes goes, they were "in" when I was in high school 9th-12th grade (1971-'75) peaking in '73-'74, but were out when my sister was in 9th to 12th, 1975-'79. The '70s (like the '60s) had 3 distinct "sections" to them that had some overlap, but were quite different also. For example a lot of the fashions, TV shows, etc. when I was in high school, were long gone, out of date and old fashioned by the late '70s, yet it WAS still the same decade. So poor work went into this video. Sorry.

49-year old guys playing dodgeball.

I went to high school in the 70s. We didn't have 8 track players in the "school yard" or play dodge ball in gym. Kids still pass notes. Sock hops, poodle skirts!? Uh, NO!! We had MINI skirts, MICRO mini skirts, halter tops, hot pants, hip huggers and bell bottom pants!

Graduated In 1978. Remembered Everything In This. The Smoking Pit! Remember Racing To Typing Class To Get On If The Two Electric Typewriters! What A Great time To Be A Teenager!

I graduated in 1977, so I was there for all the seventies high school stuff. This showed so many things that were so dated we laughed about them in high school. Also stuff I laughed at from my parents’ yearbooks. C’mon. As you pointed out, research is so much easier these days.

Hated dodge ball and gym all through high school!

It's funny because I do remember friends in high school in the 70s with 8-track tapes and players but I was never into them. I was always about cassettes. They were more durable. In fact I probably still have a box or two of them around and I'll bet they still playing correctly.

We never had enough time to decorate lockers much less "start conversations" . Dis you?

I never saw anyone with an 8-track boom box in HS in the '70s. I never even saw one period. I grew up in the Detroit metro area.

What the hell were belly bottom pants ? Lol

I slept 😴 💤 through most of it 😆

no 8 track players actually in the school itself out in the student cars yes but in my High School they weren't allowed in school itself. Our PE uniforms were black shorts and a white shirt. I graduated in 1976 this guy is ignorant he don't know what he's talking about. yeah posters on lockers weren't allowed

Yeah graduated 76 never saw the lockers decorated or the posters in the hall yes bell bottoms and platform shoes films and typing class and there was no sock hops they were in the 50’s

You need to improve your research. Your talking about and showing stuff that are 10+ years before and 10+ years after 70’s. On what planet did you go to high school?

Typing transferred very well to computers all good computer people are good typists and don't look at the keyboard.

We had a smoking hall in school

I was in toking class in the 90's in high school freshman year, by some year that was gone. You could smoke in designated areas in the 80's.

A Ghost poster? That came out in 1990 not the 70s

I graduated in 1976, I don’t know what sort of school some of these commenters went but in my jr high and high school in the Chicago burbs these were all a fact of life.

I don't remember any sort of team dodge ball. When we played one person was it and the rest circled around that one who threw at anyone and everyone and when they hit someone they traded places.

Wow, you got a lot wrong. I was elementary in the 70s but even i know, sock hops 60s, sit in were 60s and some early 70s but mainly in colleges, no one took 8 track players to school they were too bulky and one picture you showed was a boom box not 8 track player. Not to mention movie posters from the 80s. Although some of it was right, yeah, not well researched and a bit overdramatized.

Good thing a zombie apocalypse didn't happen at the height of the bell bottoms craze. You can't run very good in those stupid things.

Sad to hear this guy thinks a lot of this stuff disappeared just cause it got digitized. Younger generations can help those of us willing to listen so we can remain in society

Dodge ball was played in Elementary School, not high school!! And we didn't have planners!

Sniffing the mimeograph papers

At the Dollar General I go to near my house has registers that don't even show the price as they ring the items. You don't know until you get you receipt. I have had to get price adjustments many times but the employees at my store are wonderful but they are always short staffed and NOT given enough hours to properly run their store. HOWEVER, that is just corporate America anymore. I was a store manager in restaurants and retail for over 20 years and they never give enough hours and just expect us greatly underpaid managers to pick up the sla k

I thot this was a parody of vintage utubes until I read the comments. That is funny

8 tracks were more of a 60s thing. Only a couple people had them in early 70s and then only in the car. Cassettes had replaced them. Dodge ball was a middle school thing. Not high school and certainly no adults! A few girls might put a couple pictures on inside door of their locker. I never once saw anything on the outside of one. So much is wrong in this.

Poodle skirts?? That was the 50s. Mini skirts were the length in the early 70s. Every student had a textbook for every class. We didn't call our dances sock hops either.