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@@petegrillo4187 mine was 78 how times have changed for the worst for our children and grandchildren.

...I as well..I graduated High School in 1972, just months before I turned 17.

‘72 high school graduate here, too. It seems so distant, yet not that long ago at the same time. My brother had a ‘60 Mercury. We would cruise Van Nuys Boulevard, listen to KHJ radio, see our friends out on cruise night, watch Walter Cronkite give the news …..and wonder what we were going to do with our lives after graduation.

Hold the phone I'm a 1972 grad who is this

Yeah, YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!

The older we get, the truer this statement...

I graduated in 1972 as well. Ohhhhhh only if I could go back I would do things so differently.

What school I'm servite detroit 1972

Somebody with indifference made every attempt to ruin your happiness. You did what you could to restore some of them cherished memories and feelings. That is a form of achieved happiness. Good for you, my friend 💜

1972 was really a great year for me scofab I miss 1972 Times are n t the same as they were then

Ah how smart you are.😢

Try not to look back. Hope you’re in a better place 🙏🏻

@@robertmoir5695 Well, I was born then.

17 years later, Tighe found additional paying work playing the owner of the Double Deuce in "Road House".

M*A*S*H (the TV series), starring Alan Alda (Capt. Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce), McLean Stevenson (Lt. Col. Henry Blake), Wayne Rogers (Capt. "Trapper" John McIntyre), Loretta Swit (Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan), Gary Burghoff (Corporal Walter "Radar" O'Reilly), Larry Linville (Major Frank Burns) and Jamie Farr (Corporal Max Klinger), premiered on CBS on 17 September.

Randolph Mantooth also appeared as himself on the hit TV show "Diagnosis: Murder" on CBS.

Apparently as a baby the opening of this show was my favorite thing. Also the reason for my 1st cuss word the 1st time I saw it. My Mom and Aunt told me I said with amazement "oh shit".

I was in 6th grade in '72 and I totally concur! Everyone was burning their tongues on cinnamon toothpicks and bruising their arms with those cool clacker things that were actually legal at the time.

@@alexandermundy1172 😎

I was only 4 in '72 and cookies and some candies were still a penny in some of my local stores.

1971-72 school year I was in 1st grade that time.. wow time flys fast 56 yrs old today.

@@bqkmg2037 Happy Birthday 🎂🎈🎉

The draft formally ended in 1973.

@reneauvray3440 the last numbers had just been drawn, and the announcement that the draft was ending occurred in the spring of '72. I remember this quite clearly because I was a high school junior at the time, facing the prospect of being drafted for the war the next year. Deciding what to do in the next 12 months was much at the top of my mind.

I turned 15 in June 1972. You're right..the years have flown by. Seems like yesterday.

@@MelodyAnn1957 you both are spring chickens. I was a senator for 180 years and then VP for 36 years. Come on man. Not a joke.

Pretty scary, actually. I'm right behind you!

Me too...It was certainly one of the best times of my life...where is that time machine? I wanna go back!!

I was in Jr. High and I'm 63yo now 😙

@DonH Thank you for your service

Thank you for your service 🇺🇸

Thank You For Your Service. 🦅

Yes! I graduated a year later.

I was in Austin Texas that summer visiting my cousin from New Mexico. I had never been anywhere and Austin seemed so modern compared to New Mexico which seemed like a century behind. I remember the good music on the radio. I would return home to finish high school but after graduation I returned to Austin . 1972 was the best year of my life. Driving a 1965 four door Chevrolet Impala car. Even to this day I ponder over the summer of 1972 with fond memories. Look at what we are having to live in nowadays. Michelle Obama said it best. The United States as already seen its best days.

@Martin Pennock Same here. Graduated high school in '72, my dad drove me to to USC in our '66 Chevelle station wagon & kicked me out the door at the dorm (there was no such thing as orientation in those days). I still have my draft card, BTW. The world after that just went faster & faster for me, as you say. Where were you, if I may ask?

@@sanseijedi I was in Texas. Started at UT that fall. Went a year and ended up in the Marines. Got out, got married, finished school, went to work and BAM, here I am today! LoL 😂

@@martinpennock9430 Semper fidelis & good luck, from one old guy to another.

He won two NBA Championships (1966-67 Philadelphia 76ers and 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers)

Wilt the Stilt.

it wasn't his last year. The game they were talking about was the 1973 NBA finals against the Knicks.

I also graduated in '72 and my draft # was 33. No matter what anyone says about Nixon he is forever my hero for ending the draft!

Despite the fact that Chamberlain was a bit before my time, I am also of the thinking he is the best. He just did so many things that no one else ever did, or has done since. No one dominated like him. I think people are just way too impressionable, and give way too much consideration to that which is before them on a more recent basis, the only reason I can think that guys like James, Bryant, or even Jordan are mostly the ones anyone really talks about as being the greatest.

Very good point, and well-put, Brett. They tend to make me feel my age, but are very nostalgic at the same time. I've subscribed, too.

We have a program over here in Britain called 'The Rock and Roll Years' which shows music and news stories from different years - so interesting!!!

I believe the length is perfect.

👍😂I was born in '70, so I RULE!!😂

@@inkey2 me to graduated in 78 probably blew mine in 77,man I still think about her.

You dodged a bullet, pal. Hippie Chicks did not last.

@@misterwhipple2870 Not a hippie chick! She’s probably worth $40 million now, but I’d take her if she didn’t have a cent. Never let family money go to her head.

@ Just Mike My home city,too. I thought Service Electric was the first to have Cable TV.

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We had an open campus also at my high school. Unfortunately the beach was 40 minutes away in Santa Cruz California.

What a dreamy comment! I could really visualize what you were saying!

We, too, had "open lunch" and "open study halls" back then. We could be trusted to go where we wanted during those time periods, because we were always prompt and presentable on our return for classes. Can you imagine those same priviledges being bestowed on today's high schoolers?

I hear you. I was 19 as well. I was going to a Junior College at the behest of my parents, waiting to see if I was still going to be drafted of if college became bust, following in fathers footsteps and join the Navy. I worked at a TV store delivering them, putting up antennas and other chores. I also volunteered to work for a Museum on an archaeological dig for a few weeks. In the end, I became a professional archaeologist.

Awesome!!!:)))

I just love meeting people I consider my adversary in some way, only to find out how kind and human they are. I was also anti-war, and in general I still am, but I will by drinks for a US Marine any day.

Haha, me, too!

I was 12 years old in 1972 and in Junior High School. Sweet times, life was so much simpler for everyone back then. In my opinion we grew up in a great generation, probably the last generation of kids who could play outside safely without the worry of being abducted by a predator. Great videos I watch all of them, you really take us back to so many happy times and memories 🥹☺️💕

Remember if you drank a coca cola out of the bottle too fast it would burn your nose? 😊

@@HD-dw1cn And your throat.😁 i was only 4 and sometimes that coke was so strong, it would burn.😉✌🏾

@@elwin38 😎

So did Fran Drescher at the end of September.

One of the best episodes was when she yelled to a man who claimed to be Lamonts father: "What did you say N***er. The audience went wild!!

What you talkin' bout Willis?

Damn, I'm so sorry that I had such a long-winded response to your Split Second post up above. Turns out, you care a lot about TV shit that doesn't matter and CERTAINLY has no place in a timeline video. Please, carry on!

I remember that show! I loved Paul Lynde.

@@jpeek1009 He was laid to rest since 1/10/1982.Will be remembered but not forgotten.

@Tiny Taco all I know is I will be awaiting for the first filming of Tiny Taco making the KZfaqz better place for mankind! Subbed, you little cutie! 😍🐶🤗

@Tiny Taco 😎 hehe, thanks! 😄

Because they never really went to the moon.

@@areguapiri Yeah; took my daughters to Smithsonian in 2006'; saw the lem, it looked like my mother's 71' Pinto.

Thank you for your service. US army here, but I joined in 88 and got out in 98.

And PBS stations premiered in January 1972 "Zoom" produced by WGBH Boston.

Yes, and according to Mr. Bookman 1971 was a bad year for libraries........Lots of 60's overhang until '72.

I would say that the 'Seventies REALLY began in October '73, with the Yom Kippur War and OPEC. That's what REALLY brought the Hippie Party to a screeching halt.

And thanks to unions, too.

I loved Mike Douglas. Even though he was encouraged, man times, to move his talk show out of Philadelphia, he never did. We saw some great shows at his studio. Even got to meet the late actor, Barry Newman (who starred in the mid-70's drama, "Petrocelli"), one day as he was hailing a cab after appearing on his show.

I went to Saint Peter High and wanted to go to Gustavus, but I could not afford it. It's a Commie Woke dump now. Whaddya expect from Swedes?

@@misterwhipple2870😆😳

Had the same situation when Toledo had pandas at a zoo in 1988.

That’s nothing today. How cool.

Yes I was 13 in 72 as well 😄

Agreed. Excellent idea.

I love Popeye’s chicken.

@@lacy.knickers146 Eat the bird,carry the word.🐔🐓🐓

Johnny Olson - (name of studio audience member) COME ON DOWN!!!!! You're the next contestant on the Price is Right!

They were running a lot of them on prime time and calling them reality TV, but they were game shows - like Fear Factor, Weakest Link, American Idol, and Who Wants To Be a Millionaire. The main difference was for each question or challenge there was about 3 minutes of supposedly suspenseful music before a person could answer. It was all about the buildup. That's the only reason they were an hour long.

I have all 9 seasons on dvd 😎

@@HD-dw1cn Congrats!

Wow, I can’t believe he forgot this one. The Waltons were a huge hit when it debuted. My favorite show growing up.

With or without her belly button, LOL?

I was 13 in 1972 for my final year of innocence.

I had the same experience at age 14. I was miserable for a year until my parents decided to move back to our hometown. I could enjoy life with my friends again.

72 had the opposite for me. As a 8 year old we went from living in the 3 third largest city to a very rural area. Population less then 50 .

I experienced the same as a military brat. In retrospect, being pulled away from a neighborhood and a school after junior high going to high school is still something I wished never happened - and that occurred in 1967.

My stepdad enlisted in the US Navy and was "promised" the MOS of computer operator - something like that. After boot camp they assigned him to the engine room of a destroyer and sent him to Vietnam, where his ship mostly shelled the coastline to draw return fire so the aircraft would know where to strike enemy installations. My uncle enlisted in the Army in 1966 and asked for Southeast Asian Theater, infantry. They sent him to Germany and assigned him to the quartermaster corps. He applied for transfers twice after that, but he was refused. He was the only one who understood their system and who could actually program their new computer to do what they needed it to do. He wanted to go to Vietnam because the rule at the time was only one sibling could serve there, and he was worried about his younger brother Dick. Sadly, in 1969 Uncle Dick was drafted, and after a month in-country his APC was destroyed by an anti-tank mine, and he didn't make it home. From 1969 till the end, our forces were undergoing "Vietnamization," which was Nixon's word for not replacing US troops who rotated home or who were killed, reducing our forces by attrition, while expecting the ARVN troops would somehow become ready on their own to pick up the slack. (They didn't.) Meanwhile the units still in country had a job to do, and they were all short-handed, so they were getting killed at a higher rate. I was in contact with a few of the guys from my uncle's platoon a few years ago, and that was a complaint I heard again and again. By mid 1972 I expect our regular ground forces were pretty minimal, and they were completely gone by the end of the year. I wouldn't have wanted to have been among them though.

Most underrated/ under reported/ under talked about sporting event of all time.

@@AdamL994 I'd have to agree. This is the first I've heard of it. It sounds like while the US was engaged in ping pong diplomacy in China, Canada was pursuing something similar with the Soviets. I'm American, so it makes sense that it would receive less coverage here, but it seems like something I should have heard about somewhere.

Indeed, the attack on the Israeli Olympic team was a pretty big miss, as was the controversial end of the basketball competition.

Yes I thought it strange It was left out. Pretty huge event given the Olympics were centre stage and a lot of the hostages event was televised - probably the first ‘live’ terror attack on TV.

@@orangehoof That incident essentially "destroyed" the Summer Olympics for alot of people. It was a sad event in an otherwise fantastic, memorable 15th Summer for me...

You may not have made the world a better place back then, but your comment made this comment section a better comment section.

Ken Kesey wrote that after taking acid for the first time. Still legal at the time.

The late Michael Sarrazin was so handsome. Loved him as part of the group of young cowboys in the late 60's Western, "Journey to Shiloh", which also starred Jan-Michael Vincent, a very young James Caan, and an unknown young actor, Harrison Ford.

And I still have most of those 45's in my collection. What a wonderful time to be a teen. Such diversity in our music, but it was ALL GOOD!!