That is truly a gift.

My husband and I got married on May 24, 1975. We were married 31 years before he passed away at just 54 years old. This year would be our 47th anniversary if he was still alive.

@@maryvalentine9090 Sorry for your loss, our anniversary is May 18 '75. 47 years for us also.

Did you go out into the woods with her back in those early years? Where I grew up, the boys did our thing out in the woods and the girls played with dolly's.

@@bocabec6744 No woods for us, we did our thing together in the back seat of my car. Lol

Same here. But the 90's were when I had the BEST JOB I had ever had. Before AND after. By the 90's, Music became shit but I had a good job AND I became a great Bass Player. I play Classic Rock and early Metal. Now I am 62, retired, and doing NOTHING basically.

Yes, best time period, the 90s had good rock too.

@@MichaelTheophilus906 But I WAS around for the 60's.

@@MichaelTheophilus906 I was born in 1959.

@@MichaelTheophilus906 it’s true I’m fried as fuck rn

I know I feel sad for this generation….they barely had a childhood with so much technology

10. Bicycle was the only mode of transportation unless you liked walking.

@@denisegirmer4550 I agree . Video games have a lot to do with it and shockingly even some adult men have fallen prey to such a lazy waste of time but what's really got me us with computers , cell phones , Facebook , etc books are becoming obsolete .

Yeah, I was 19 and it was a great time to live. Think about all of the "firsts" we got to see created. I loved growing up on the east coast at the Lynn/Nahant beaches! Groovy times!

I was 15 and man the 70s were the best😊

You know what’s even funnier is we would spend the summers out at my grandparents house in East Hampton. Pre cable so TV reception was bad. We loved playing cards, scrabble every night.

Your whole comment was nice until u got all idiotic about the weight thingie..fool !

and now 80% of people are overweight

Not such a great time in history when your parents were alcoholic and you had to scrounge for everything you could to eat. Not such an idyllic life for everyone

Thankfully thats not a thing anymore, the everything closed on Sunday bit

All of them? Your 64, still young... Seems like your siblings and sweetheart should still be alive.

I'm 63 ,and all by myself too

Im 72 and all my family passed except my children;Life is hard now

They want to kill us all out for the new world order.anyone past 60 is just a worthless eater to them and they just want to clean the roles at social security. Then they want to get rid of the low wage earners and replace them with illegal migrants..and after that the ai replace about 60 % of the skilled and professional work force...that's the real green new deal ...they don't need about 80% of is anymore .Population reduction is a real plan and they are already doing it gradually...more to come

I'm 62, soon to be 63. I had a full family back then as well. Those were the good old days. Not many of us left now. But I still have so many wonderful memories of those days. Yet after all these years I still miss them sometimes.

Sorry for your loss. The greatest thing is it appears you both got to experience happiness together.

So sorry for your loss...💔 May she R.I.P. They truly were the best of times never to be repeated ✌

My Condolences to you, God Bless

She’s still with you

God bless you never stopped loving her Keeper in your heart

Graduated in 1975 as well and, 'That '70's Show' was almost 'too' accurate, despite fact it supposedly referred to ca 1978-79

I was born 1/19/75

I graduated in 1975 also. Here I am retired sitting in my recliner watching the beginning of my adult life. It has been a long ride but it went by at 100 mph. Pay attention kids and take it all in.

It’s uncanny how much that show mirrored my teen life. We hung out in one friend’s basement listening to music always had beer and what not😄

@@julenepegher6999 Exactly! Although bounced from my 'hometown' back east to Calif in 1978. Me and cold weather don't play well together.

We did too, she was 17 and I was 18, been together for 47 years and it's better now than ever.

I got married at 51 I was still to young 😂😊

@@davidmann4533 Good one, but how does she feel?

Same😊

Same,& how fast time goes the older u get.Boy I thought we had problems then!nothing like today,speaking mostly about the U.S.

Same such fun times

Me too

@Cynthia Jones Tell me more about 1975 that is the year I was born summer of 75

Sorry it was rough for you. I had a horrible step dad, but he calmed down in later years and would cry easily.

1975 was rough for my family as well. I'd love to go back to 1975 and correct the mistakes. 💖⚘

Brother Man You Have To Talk To Your Stepdad ok

@@user-ps7jc6zz1w you can’t talk to someone who doesn’t want to talk to you. It’s not that simple.

And she misses you.

I was 10 at the time, riding my single speed orange Columbia with a banana seat and sissy bar. The good old days when kids played outside all year 'round.

The 70s were do great, weren't they? I always sigh with the memories of a world gone away whenever I think of those days...

11 years old, small town outside Col. Oh. 1974 Ford LTD, pool bum (lifeguard at 15), red ten speed Huffy. Very lucky. Those days defined my life.

I hear you man. Same here.

Nostalgia hurts sometimes. I'm feeling the same way.

Oh I know how that feels. After 20 some years too. Shame.

My parents separated that year too. It was awful being tossed back and forth.

@John Dunn vbg I hope.

My kids aren't huggers. My body, my rules.

Same, although I was 6th grade. The first set of step parents were awful, felt like I was fending for myself at 12.

Yup but those days are long gone. I'm sure we are about the same age

Ditto

My life was pretty much the same thing except I didn't have a crush on John Travolta! LOL!

@@glenkeating7333 I think you just dated yourself! lol me too

The 1970s was a great time to be young .

your not the only one who is amazed

Amen. Amen.

ME, TO! JUST TURNED 65!

Sad thing is all the parents are dead or dying

I can relate to that all the drinking we did along with smoking pot before homeroom highschool to me was a 4 year party just young enough to miss out on Viet Nam draft and old enough to remember Woodstock

prob. worth $600,000 today . 'cat' from fontana ... i paid $113;000 for my first house in 1993 .

My folks bought their homes in SoCal in the late 50s for $9000 and $15000. They are selling for about a million now. Same houses would go for about $200,000 each back east. California is nuts!!! We left in ‘66 on Highway 66😃

@@joeswartz8286 My brother just moved back to work in NYC. After selling in Laurel Canyon stopped in Franklin TN. Was able to buy a farm & will fly back every two weeks. Staying with our brother in Brooklyn. Crazy but he’s happy 😊

For me it feels like a thousand years ago! I hate the world we live in now!

@@mamabear8818 - I share the feeling... I don't recognize this world anymore. How did it change so much so fast & in so many ways for the worse?

It sure does. I'm two years older than you and it's so hard to believe that this is almost 50 years ago!! I remember my parents telling me back then how fast time goes. They were so right.

1962

My first son was 5 years old and my other son was 3.It feels like yesterday and yet so far away.Sometimes I wish we were still back then when we weren’t so afraid of life.

And so much fun out doors! Bike riding, tennis, frisbee! Never had 'nothing to do'.....

And Imagination.

Oh yes definitely! And when we placed a call to a business we would get a real live person immediately! Lol

I remember the 90's. It was a simpler time, people got away with a lot more back then.

That's good reasoning,too.

these days all the streets are vacant of kids. in my day kids out playing everywhere... wouldn’t trade growing up in the 70’s for anything.

Though I was there and understand what you're saying , - what hope for the future did you still feel in '76 ? - '75 was already well into the beginning of the end , pop culturally. We've been on the decline and shitting the bed since the late '50's.

Year I was born I feel lucky to grow up in the 80s and 90s a much better place than today

The 70's and 80's were definitely the best years to grow up in

Yeah what happened to the world we used to know

The 70s were better than the 80s.

Congrats! 🍾🥂

I was 19. You are absolutely correct. Simpler, but not with some issues that still plague us today.

I was making 2.50 an hour working for Kroger's bagging groceries.

I was born 1/19/75

I'm right there with you. Married in 1974 and it's been 47 years now. Our daughter was born overseas in 1979 when I was stationed in the Azores, Portugal. When my wife went into labor she was the only one in the maternity wing of the hospital. They had to turn on the lights on the whole floor just for her. Talk about personal service. The next day two other mothers went into labor.

As a Canadian, I can tell you that Gordon Lightfoot had a gift in the form of an ability to evoke haunting images in so many of his ballads. His account of the Fitzgerald tragedy ensured the memories of the 29 men, whom he is now with, are never forgotten.

Back when "I'm proud to be an American" meant something.

Wasn't that around the time we did Hands Across America...anyone remember that🇺🇲♥️

I brought a Colt Government Model Liberty Series for $99.99 on 7-4-76 using money from resturent pot washer at $4.25 per hour.

Born in 1960, yes it was!!!

I was 11 in NE NJ.. the one thing that stands out for me was that everybody was out in the streets, hanging out ,different gangs.. playing fighting fighting screwing smoking drinking the weekends were nuts and Wild fun really wild

Born in '55. Awesome time! The Best year of my life.

Best time of my life i was 15. Weed was 10.00 an once. Gas was less than .50 as was a coke. I made 200.00 a months rent for a for one bedroom apt in Greenville Texas 300.00

1963. No more bb gun wars,paper tag, hide n go seek,no more 'gangs' of kids on schwinns.

Ocean Swimming? Me neither.,.....LOL!

Most shark bites occur in knee deep water or less.

@@bobwallace9814 nah, it's fine. I stay at the edge and keep my eyes on the water constantly sweeping for movement in the water. The water has to be crystal clear or I'm nowhere near it. I also pay attention to warnings and never walk at dusk or at night.

That's was the first movie I remember people going back for multiple views.

We have since then found out jaws is real.

All eras have the above, and this time was not only easier, but it was much more pleasant...

Oil embargoes, gasoline queues due to shortages, price rises, inflation.........yeah.

@@dartskipper3170 Still better than now.

Always existed,called murderers,been around,so!

Then you weren't there

Same here

I turned 16 that summer. Good times!

I turned 16 that year as well. I am in Canada but much that was described here applied to us as well however we were not burdened with the whole Vietnam thing which made the late 60's to mid 70's a great time to live in Canada!

Nancy and L , no matter where we’re from, we all have that 70’s bond! Truly the greatest times. Cheers!

Julene, u forgot to mention smoking those south of the border butts!! Lol

It was way easier to skip school back then. Nobody tracked anything. If you didn’t show up you didn’t show up.

Gordon Lightfoot wrote and sang the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" a year later.

go SHARKNADO !!

Still gives me the chills when I hear it on the radio.

Yes Gordon Lightfoot is from Canada, a year later would be 76. He has several videos where he sings it on KZfaq or look it upon Facebook in the video section.

@@rhuephus I was surprised when I found out Sharknado was a movie. I thought I was watching a live news report when I first tuned in.

Sorry, that must have been awful, especially for someone so young.

@@sallyneary1996 it was. My father was and is my hero. When he got killed i pretty much went bat shit crazy for months at a time. My mother, was a magnificent mother. Between them i had more than any other poor kid around. I didn't know we were poor i got in high skool. After Christmas all the kids in the neighborhood came to my house to see what i got. I got real barroom pinball machines. I had a regulation slate billiard table. Before i was 16. While i loved my mother with all my heart, she was a different kind of animal. She went to extremes. Tried to stab my father, attempted suicide (a night I'll never forget). And could spend money faster than you could count it. She also knew the benefits of having a child at the proper time, which meant i had to be in on the scam. Don't misunderstand my relationship with my mother. Even though we didn't always see eye to eye i know she would defend me at the gates of hell.

God Bless him! I know you’re proud- my Dad & now one Grandson were/are Marines!✌️🇺🇸

Yeah, Led Zeppelin, KISS, Boston, Elton John, Bachman Turner Overdrive. You could ride in the back of a pick up. No cops bothered you. Water out of a garden hose. Play outside till dark.

Agree

@@jimmyarmijo792 didnt have to lock your doors either.

@@jimmyarmijo792 You could go out and play in the woods. No woods anymore or if so you are trespassing.

@@m.e.d.7997 ah yea , the woods were so fun, we built shacks, played release, always got poison ivy but we went right back in. Great times.

Wow! What a testament to determination and endurance! Your Grandpa as well!

Sorry for the tragedy in your life.

Much love to your remarkable family!

Thank yall so much she is one tough cookie lol. She even battled cancer in 83 so she'll prob outlive me.

Hi Audra Best Wishes from Parramatta Sydney

Wow my boyfriend at the time ( who married me) had a 1970 Dodge Challenger. We met in 76 but to me that car was Still the Finest on the road! (He’s still pretty cool too) Great memories from those days!✌️

Hi there, Good afternoon Seeing you here put a smile on my face. I would really love to get to know you better. Is there anything you would like to tell me about yourself? I'm all ears! Well I'm from Italy. But I am currently in Las Vegas NV. I'm new on here and I hope to hear from you soon Ok

@MonicaRamirez-lb8mc👌🏾👍🏾My firstborn child also was born Summer '75!!👍🏾👌🏾

@@Mickkiewhen $250 a week was good money because the dollar actually went somewhere, when a loaf of bread is $15, $40 an hr ain’t much, scary. 🐾✌️🇺🇸

@@deborahchesser7375 :Yeah. Scary. Yeah.

❤️🙏

Remember when the streakers would run through the lines? 😂

It was the first movie to open in multiple theaters all across the US at the same time.

He could run. Made it look effortless

Hi there, Good afternoon Seeing you here put a smile on my face. I would really love to get to know you better. Is there anything you would like to tell me about yourself? I'm all ears! Well I'm from Italy. But I am currently in Las Vegas NV. I'm new on here and I hope to hear from you soon Ok

You have great taste in music. Cheer up it's not all bad now. 😊

Me too!

@NitroLPR9 Born May '57 & in a quirk of fate, graduated the DAY BEFORE I turned 18!! I guess there weren't people in the Class of '75 at your school born in Sept. or Oct. '57? I had friends that were born up to early November, before the cutoff date. For a GOOD number of years now though, I think the cutoff IS August! Sept./Oct. kids are put in with the next class. That means Heather Thomas (9/8/57) wouldn't have been the proud member of the Class of '75 she is. By the way, I got to meet her in Feb. 2020 before everything changed, and she's very nice and gracious. Fun to talk to, and still beautiful! :-)

Graduated also in 1975. Where did the time go? Glad I grew up when I did.

@Mike Zielinski Interesting. So you're 64 too! Were you talking about the early, mid, or (messed up) late 60's, Mike? Speaking for myself, I'd have to say culturally my cutoff is 1985-'86. I want you to start taking in 80's New Wave my friend, like Animotion, Berlin, Falco, The Cars, Information Society, Depeche Mode; albums like 'I Can't Stand Still' and 'Building the Prefect Beast' by Don Henley. 'You Belong To the City' by Glenn Frey; how the 'Eagles' changed with the times in such a brilliant way with some of their best music yet! Immerse yourself in that era; you'll love it. The late 80's though was when rap and the ghettoization of this nation began, and look where we are now 34 years later. Check out The Car's (final) album 'Move Like This'. Retains the classic Car's sound and style, just updated for the 21st century. Look through some of the monthly LIFE magazines of the 80's too. An era gone without a trace, but we can still enjoy it, and should.

I remember most of these... was 7 at the time. I loved the oddball couple cartoon that came on SAT morning, i loved the opening theme music too.

Also that famous game 6 home run by Boston's Carlton Fisk in what is arguably the best World Series at that time. Surprised that didn't make the cut since its one of baseball's most memorable highlights.

Starsky and Hutch also premiered on ABC

Wayne Rogers (Trapper John) and McLean Stevenson (Lt. Col. Henry Blake) both left M*A*S*H during '75, and were replaced by Mike Farrell (B.J. Hunnicutt) and veteran actor Harry Morgan (Col. Sherman Potter).

Don''t forget "Magnificent Marble Machine" debut on NBC.The late,great Art James hosted.

🙏

Folks have lost morals on life now!

the reality is that racial inequity and marginalization and hate of lgbt folks was much much higher than today as the concern regarding such issues in the general conscience and media was more geared to how these issues of social justice threatened the norm vs harmed the above mentioned marginalized groups. Blacks and women at least were starting to get a voice. Lgbt folks were way behind. In fact being trans was pretty much illegal in many southern states. With any marginalized group that has made progress, there is alway going to be pushback from those who liked the "good old days" when the establishment pretty much had them under foot.

My 1st year of college & Springsteen & his band performed there in Sept ‘75. I remember leaving after the 2d song because I thought he was so horrible. I sure went against the grain, lol!

Dad? Haha! I was born in January '75 and I'm an only child as well. Good year indeed :)

I'm a 75 baby too!

I was born in the summer of 1975--and I'm an only child, too!

I saw Jaws with a friend at the theater. We had our feet up in our chairs for the entire movie because we just knew that the shark was under our seats and would bite our legs off! Heck, we were just 18!!!! 😂

I was four and my parents took me with them to see it. My dad told me I had to be careful when taking a bath because sharks could swim up the drain. I didn't bathe for a while.

@@putler965 With all due respect you should not have been taken to the movie. Dad was wrong on all counts

Those bareback halter tops & tubular tops (also known as strapless tops) were all the rage!!! And today, they still are. I think.

Yeah, a good time to be a boy. Those halter tops provided many "flashes" if the girl turned or twisted just the right way. 👀

I was 18 I wore them too such fun

@@deborahpellerito6117 I wore diapers back then. That was a hella lot of fun.

..don't forget tube socks!

The midnight movies and costumed audiences , yes ...

Always liked Gordon Lightfoot's ballad. I saw those huge ore ships when I was in Duluth,MN (3 times).

@@jaldav I like that song as well. The line in the song where the cook tells the hands it's too rough to feed ya always struck a chord with me. Dad let me tag a long on the docks a few times when I was a kid and I remember going on board some of the ships and having supper with the crew. The cooks were good and the food was always tasty. You're right, those lake boats were big.

Amazing stories! What a small world!😃👍✨💖✨

Totally agree on the original SNL cast. I tried watching the second cast a few times, and an occasional episode over the years after that, but no subsequent cast ever had, at least in my opinion, the same talent and charisma.

I stopped watching SNL on a regular basis after December 31, 2000. Having gotten used to the 70's, 80's & 90's lineups, I can't really say I miss it all that much.

No School Shootings

LGB / FJB

I just commented, We were the same age👍

Same age myself. Seems as though I was gearing up for my breakout year 1976 ! !

I turned 8 in '75. I started to keep a diary...wish I 'd held onto it.

Wow, I was 9 in 1975, too 😊

I was born in 1966 too!! The 70's were the best of times!!

Freshman year...

The next year, 1976, the Bucs were established -- losing their first 26 games!

then jimmy carter came into play and wiped out everything with stagflation and utter failure to finish the decade off

@Retro_Afterglow Yes as the middle class went up into top tier income and the poor gained jobs ands moved into middle class. Should study the real history and or live as I did. It improved for all. After carter disaster, inflation dropped, interest on loans dropped, business grew, new business starts were highest ever at the time, microsoft and apple grew, along with every business, and the product quality got better from the three major auto builders, thanks to companies like Toyota and Mazda building quality. Oh and welfare dropped, government stopped growing out of control. Only people that were unhappy was the useless government workers that caused all the problems in the first place. Welcome to the real world, called facts from make believe of liberal media

@Retro_Afterglow It's more than unemployed and making $0.00. Its a starting wage to learn, not to be a living wage and settle. If that is your plan, then your plan to be poor was provided. At $7.25 generally means you are over paid to be in a training program and not worth the investment

@Retro_Afterglow complete useless numbers to compare one generation to another based strictly on inflated number to reach the fake goal of a result. Simple fact, the middle class did grow to a higher class and brought the bottom up. But the numbers you so desperately wish to insult a president fails the reality that lower income people grew based on increase of illegal immigrants and regular legal immigrants that brought the lower income population numbers to a increase, and that is a clear statistical fact. Illegal immigrants are always willing to work for much less, because to them that is a 100% increase top what they were getting before. No other country punishes investors with capital gains tax, let alone failure to include the inflation for that capitol gain. Increase in value is based not always of value but mostly on inflation, for which you always fail to incorporate into your fake numbers. This country punishes success and reward failures. And you fail to realize increasing welfare begets more welfare. Being jealous of those who worked for their money and invested to future growth which also created millions of jobs and increase the GDP. No investment gets you the end result of socialism and communism , it will always fail as proven by the USSR. Poor people who stay poor, there is a reason, mostly poor choices, and over reliance of government welfare system that enslaves them. Your whole concept is totally a false theory based on things staying the same, for which, it never does. People grow to better economic situations by adapting and changing. Democrats only know how to take from others to get to their failed and useless goal, that has proven over and over to never ever work. LBJ war on poverty wasted billions of dollars for nothing, for the welfare state remain the same % of the population. Higher taxes gets you zero in return, for government is the most failed system of job creation ever. Never ever going to have a positive outcome, hasn't since they first started a type of welfare system since the Roman days, and still proven failure in to 2021

@Retro_Afterglow I have lived and still own business' in South America, so tell me all about it. Welfare in the USA has big screen TV a car a house and so much food that they are fat and lazy. In other words welfare is rewarding failure and the continuation of pure failure of a society. Let them go hungry and they will work. In South America, the poor may be poor, but they also work. PS they work easily 10 hour days and 6 days a week for $100 month. Oh and they are a happier people than any useless welfare complainer in the USA. Arguing with you is exhausting and useless. Go with reality and facts against make believe and fiction and cherry picking small what you want and not the whole is useless and either way reality is fact based, feelings are make believe as you clearly like to believe in, though doesn't make it real. One can never reward failure and punish success to create a great people or country. That is the fall of every once great country in history. Open borders and no control of one own culture, dilutes the culture and takes on the failure of other cultures. So much easier to fail than to work hard and continue to succeed. A country is only as strong as its work ethic's and rewarding success and ability. Taking care of the useless and lazy gets you more failure.

The best birthday presents my father got me were a banana seat, butterfly handlebars, and a sissy bar for my bike.

@@joekoz3815 I Was 10 In 1975. I Just Loved My Purple Banana Seat Bicycle. Does Anyone Remember The Clacker? Those 2 Acrylic Color Balls. Very Dangerous Toy. Children With Black Eyes & Busted Lips.

@@caryrodriguez5765 ..yeah i bruised myself up a bit with those things, i went back to using my "Spirograph" making fancy colored designs.

While it did seem more sane, it was a volatile time. Vietnam ending, President Nixon’s troubles, racial nonsense, oil embargo, gas shortages, inflation growing,etc. But, it still seemed more sane and fun than today!!!!!! Never thought I’d live to see this nonsense. God help us!!!!👍🇺🇸❤️

Most of the things you listed are happening right now!

Did you watch the video? 1:14 middle-class white domestic terrorists planting bombs, 2:14 insane man kills entire family, 5:00 presidential assassination attempt #1, 5:16 attempt #2, not to mention Jim Jones and the Jonestown cult were in full swing, as well as The Son of Sam, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, The Hillside Strangler, The Zodiac Killer - did they sell a lot of rose tinted glasses in 75? The world has always been insane - it's a mad world, the year doesn't matter

@@TheIronDuke9 I remember hearing about all those stories in the news. I agree, there were plenty of shocking crimes that took place. However, at the time, our government wasn't the problem it is today in 2021. In all my years, I have never witnessed such incompetent, dishonest & tyrannical government leadership as we have presently.

It wasn't completely sane. Ozzy and Alice were around back then.

That sums it up well. I was fifteen and it seemed like things were starting to move too fast. If I only knew, I miss those days.

Absolutely.Through the 50s 60s 70s not a lot of tech progress. Things stayed stable for most part with TV music and the way we lived. 1980 started the tech changes gradually then Boom! And there was no going back nor would the world ever be the same again.

I think the 80s were as sane as the 70s and just as fun. We didn't have computers (barely) and no cell phones. Born in 73 I grew up mostly in the 80s and loved it

@@mrbranson73 It was subtle and slow when it starred in 1980 so yeah I agree.

Me too!!

Yes me too I really believe that we were blessed to have lived through those times 🤔

I know I was wondering what to do with the money. 😅

My first job came a year later at a sub shop and I only made $1.80 an hour. Sounds like I was in the wrong sector of the fast food industry. You must have been living large on those kind of wages. If me and my coworkers had known BK was paying that much we might have gone on strike. We did live in a union town after all. 😁

Me too!

Hi there, Good afternoon Seeing you here put a smile on my face. I would really love to get to know you better. Is there anything you would like to tell me about yourself? I'm all ears! Well I'm from Italy. But I am currently in Las Vegas NV. I'm new on here and I hope to hear from you soon Ok

I am a year younger than you, being a kid in the 70's then a teenager in the 80's were some good times indeed!

I watched the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s videos. Life was so much better than. Yea you had your problems as teenagers do, but life was simpler and best of all was your whole family was living. It’s so not the same now.

No

@@Truename586 no?

I was 18 when I saw jaws in the theatre, scared the crap out of me!

I too am AMAZED at how many of us graduated in 1975.