Using paper bags to make book covers for our school textbooks

Does anyone remember the Enjoli commercial? "I can bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan"

Musk and mood rings come to mind 😊

You forgot Dittos jeans, earth shoes, hush puppies shoes, wedges, platforms, puka shells, gouchos (the funnest wide leg calf length pants, in all different materials they looked great with a pair of high heeled boots), mood rings. The colognes didn't end with Love's Baby Soft. There was also Charlie, Jovan Musk Oil, Avon's Sweet Honesty, Heaven Scent. Crocheted bikini bathing suits, (my mother was an expert with a crochet needle, and crocheted mine, saving herself big bucks because they weren't cheap, the cheapest she could find was $26.99 that was a lot back in 1974-75! It was one of a kind, the one she made me. I still have it to this day, but if course don't wear it anymore). Lip gloss became huge, not that other stuff that was just chapstick with flavor, I'm talking about that shiny, shiny tube of pretty colored gloss, and the glass tube with a ball that you'd roll over your lips to make them shiny as heck~the strawberry was my favorite. I miss being a teenager, but even more I miss being in my twenties in the 80's. I had a wonderful decade!

We didn't know how good we had it back then.

Every girl my age who I can remember from the late 70's into the early 80's either had Farrah Fawcett feathered hair or a Dorothy Hamill rolled under hair style.

Some of the best music came from the late 60's through the 70's.

It was a better time, 1970, it was my high school graduation decade! Girl, there were NO cell phones, no answer machines, until later, no Internet, no cable tv, we walked a lot until we got a job and bought our own first car, mine was a mustard yellow VW Bug. My family was a big part of my life, now they almost all gone, just me and my brother and he isnt doing well. 😢 But i loved being young in the 1970's, I'd really hate being young now a days especially after being young back then and remembering how life has changed today... No morals, no manners, no respect for others, never had school shooting, not gun crazy like today, No road rage, no people screaming at each other in stores acting the fool, we all knew what we were supposed to do and did it for the most of us. Fond memories it was a better time on this planet not perfect but better. 🎉 Lets hear it for the baby boomers! Being born in the 50's 🙏

Yep, I remember all these 1970's experiences. Wish we were still living in that decade! It was a much better time for me, anyway.

I don't remember seeing any girls wearing Little House on the Prairie clothes but you got the rest right.

i always say, the 70s was a great decade to be a teenager!

Etiquette was practiced. Thank you notes were written. Valentine's were given to everyone in class and annuals were signed by all friends. The boys asked girls out. Not the other way around. But miniskirts would freeze your butt off in winter!!

I can't seem to forget you. Your Windsong stays on my mind. 🎼

70's girls were beautiful. 100% real and natural. Great video!

The 70's were the best years of my life! I remember the Bonnie Bell lio gloss, and the pin ups from all the magazines like 16 Magazine was my favorite. Thanks for the memories!

Described my teen years in the 70’s to a T…. Had beaded headbands like Cher, fringe on ponchos, wore Candies, Jordache jeans, hip hugger jeans, peace sign clothing and jewelry, hit my local disco 6 nights a week. Doing the hustle, the bus stop, double Dutch, Saturday night fever dance, mood rings…. It was the best time of my life and the best time to be a teenager. I wish I could be back there for just a year or so… Great times and it saddens me to see what has happened to our kids, neighborhoods and society today. I sure miss those days….

There was a brief trend in the mid 1970s that was a 1950s flashback where the girls in high school wore Bobby socks and saddle shoes with tight sweaters and long skirts. Thank you “American Graffiti”!!!

Me in my hip hugger bell bottoms and halter top, Rocking to the best music ever, is the highlight of the 70’s for me! ❤🔥🤭

Embroidery everywhere. Shirts, back pockets, everywhere 😊

I read my "Little House and the Prairie" books over and over. I loved how they taught good lessons, values, and morals. No one I knew ever dressed like a "prairie" girl (perhaps the younger girls?) But my mom bought me a Hollie Hobbie doll ❤. My favorite Charlie's Angel was Jacklyn Smith. Overall the 70's was a good, innocent time because of my age. Yet, as you mentioned, the adults dealt with the difficulties of life at the time economically, making sacrifices so us kids could enjoy being kids. Thank you mom for everything ❤

I'm 62 where did the years go they sure flew by . Them were happy times .

The roller skating rink was HUGE in the 80s,too! Spent many a Friday night rolling around my tiny town rink ❤

In the early 1970's it was maxi dresses and long, straight hair parted in the middle. We wore choker necklaces and mood rings. Strappy sandals in bright yellow with chunky semi-translucent heels. Nude, glossy lips.

As a guy of the 70's I can tell you in 8th grade all students took home ec and had to sew and cook. And in 7th grade all students took wood class, even the girls.

I loved Mary Tyler Moore & Alice! They were two of my favorite shows in the early 1970s. I was past the bubble gum pop stars of the era since I was already 16 in 1970 so I preferred what today is called classic rock & went to a lot of concerts. I wore a lot of halter tops as well as tube tops with hip huggers...oh to be young, thin and toned again! :)

Bell bottom pants changed to straight leg jeans, sweaters were big, pierced ears and earrings, under 21 discos, going to the movies with your date, who called and asked early or you would have already accepted another boy who asked first, halter dresses, tube tops, wedge shoes, platform shoes, midriff tops, cruising the small town strip, drive ins were still popular, both food and for movies and many more .

Born in 1960, I grew up in the 70’s. Loved every year of it, LOVED disco dancing at the discotheques. I remember using a shampoo in late 70’s called Body on Tap and loved Jean Nate.

I'm so glad I got to be a teen in that decade.

I loved the shampoo "Gee your hair smells terrific". It did smell good. I also loved the Love brand body sprays. I wish they still made these items.

This video brought back so many wonderful memories! I was in high school from '75-'79. We used to always watch Charlies Angels and all the girls wanted the Farrah haircut. I wore Loves Baby Soft & Jontue perfumes had only 3 shades of eyeshadow: green, brown and of course blue. We only wore 1 shade at a time and together with Maybelline mascara in the pink tube, a little blush and shiny lip gloss our makeup for school was complete. Here in Southern California, we wore pants called Dittos, Cowl Neck sweaters and earth shoes. We listened to Blue Oyster Cult, Boston, Peter Frampton, Fleetwood Mac, Foreigner and Kansas. When Punk arrived, it was the Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Television, X, and Wall of Voodoo. There were no computers, no internet, no social media. We lived meaningful & happy lives without them. The 70's was an amazing and beautiful time to be young. Glad I was there!

Agree shampoo, Prell shampoo, Pert, and Jhirmack shampoo (the pearly green one and the pearly orange)!!!! Max Factor Pan-Stik foundation! Vintage brand lip balms in the sliding tins that came in tons of different flavors! The makeup mirrors that had different settings for lighting (morning, evening, etc), Avon Zany perfume....just too many memories of items I LOVED as a little girl back around 1978! Long dark denim skirts with CLOGS (if you had clogs with curly fringe on top, even more stylin') or clogs with gaucho pants! Original Hawaiian Tropic suntan oil in the dark brown bottle with the gold label on the front! Avon Skin So Soft and all Avon bubble baths! Avon tiny miniature lipsticks for testing various colors!

Don't forget Cowl Neck sweaters and the Earth shoe.

I loved the 1950's, 1960's and the 1970's. The 60s and 70s were the wildest..

Growing up in the 50s, 60s, and 70s was so sweet. I feel sorry for those growing up today. So confusing.

The music from the 70s was awesome! Went to many concerts back then.

Graduated high school in 1979, so yes, I fondly remember all of this.

I loved this! Right on target! Does anyone remember "Body on Tap" and the almond "Vidal Sassoon" shampoo? Jhirmack? Shampoo's golden age!!!

I watched Alice with my Grandmother ❤… loved Flo! “Kiss my Grits” 😂😂😂

I remember listening to the radio waiting for a great song to come on and tape recording it only to get the ending cut off with the radio host or commercial but it was all good to me.

Don't forget the crocheted ponchos. I was 9 in 1970 so I just missed alot of what was happening in the world around me. I was all about Donny Osmond, the Brady Bunch, and falling completely in love with David Cassidy and the Partrige Family! I loved going roller skaing every Saturday afternoon. Those songs in the early 70's were the best songs to skate to. Mony Mony, Smoke on the Water, Knock Three Times, and so many others! I just miss all of it. 😢

The mall! The movie theatre! Hanging out with friends!

My beautiful big sister in the 70's: 1) drank Tab 2) had crushes on David Cassidy and the Hardy Boys 3) got a "Dorothy Hamill" haircut made famous by the figure skater 4) wore bell bottoms and tube tops and wedge high heels 5) colorful barrettes (daisies, sunshines, etc.) 6) had a yellow smiley face t-shirt 7) played with clackers and a lemon twist you'd spin on one ankle while hopping with the other foot.

Loves Baby Soft. My high school sweetheart wore it and it drove me crazy, I miss that.

Class of 78 it was nice to revisit I'm 65 now and I don't know one young person from today would ever understand. Be home by dark as you left that morning.

What a magical time to be alive the best days of my life and I didn't even know it Until it was over.

Great video. we did do all these things back in the 70's. Brought back many great memories. We were addicted to magazines....Seventeen, Tiger Beat, etc. Fun times!! Does anyone remember the Faberge organics shampoo where the girl says "I told 2 friends and she told 2 friends, etc"? Sundresses, Leotards with matching wrap skirts for the disco, macrame vests, belts, tube socks with shorts. Dang we were pretty cute

Thank you Recollection Road ! Scents from the 70's that I miss are...The Original Herbal Essence Shampoo,( will never understand why they refuse to bring that scent back), Ambush perfume, White Shoulders perfume, Yardley of London perfume. I currently still use Prell shampoo and it smells just like it did in the 70's. Scent is a very powerful motivator. Smells from our youth are priceless.

My Wife and I were both class of 76. I can vouch for all of this (except disco, we both hated disco 🤣) I remember the blue eye shadow and feathered hair as my girlfriend (later wife) wore them both. Loved the clothes, the hair, the cars and the music from back then. It was a magical time to be alive.

You did so great!!🎉 I grew up in the 70’s in California, and I can say you’ve absolutely nailed it!!! You forgot one item: the strawberry scented and flavored ultra shiny roller ball lipgloss with the red designs on the outer glass of the tube. Everyone had that one! ❤

I went to high school and college in the 70s. It was a good time to be a teenager and young adult.

Clogs, platforms, mood rings and tube tops. Staples of the well dressed teen in the 70s.

Flex shampoo and conditioner was also very popular, and the scent was distinctive.

Jovan Musk Oil & Jontue perfume were pretty popular

They were also called "Daisy Dukes!" The good 'ol days - thank you!😯💯💫👍!

Saturday nights doing The Stomp and line dances in the old, wooden floored Junior High gym, circa 1969-72...THE BEST of times to be a young teen!

So exciting to be alive at that time I was a pre teen at that time Girls wore what we called culottes or gauchos, and boys painter pants. LOVED going to the skating rink in the early 80's.

I remember listening to the Monkees and wearing mini skirts with Go Go boots. Lots of good and fun memories from the 70s.

i was young in the 70's, but grew up in the 80's, ...and i must say, your videos are making me feel my age, with tons of nostalgia

I was a kid in the 80s (born in 1977), and a lot of this stuff carried over. Skating rinks with music, Judy Blume, Tiger Beat...

The last of the analog children and I couldn’t have asked for a better time to grow up. Born in 1970.

Another good video. In 1970 I was 16 and it seemed like the world was our oyster, except for the draft and Vietnam. There were so many beauty products for girls and very flattering clothes. It was the decade for girls and the guys like me who couldn’t get enough of them. 😍

I loved growing up in the 70’s

The lemon shampoo brought back memories of my mom keeping the lemon lids for her wax fruit bowl in the dinning room, made me smile and nostalgic, I also used the Farrah Fawcett shampoo, got a lot of compliments on my hair.

The 70s also brought A Prairie Home Companion radio show with Garrison Keillor on NPR .

Culottes, sand candles, and all that great music!

Oh man, I forgot about Bonnie Bell and how my friends would sit in a circle and pass them around, sharing each other's germs 😂😂😂

My late Mother always told me that the 1970s were by far, the happiest and least stressful years of her Life! 🖤

Jovan’s musk oil is still my favorite. We danced the night away in the disco. Took road trips. Loved the partridge family, sat morning cartoons, bell bottoms, wedge shoes, toe socks…just a great decade!

As a boy in the '70's I can tell you that I personally loved Little House on the Prairie so much I read every book in the series. It fit right in with Mutual of Omaha, Grizzly Adams, the Wilderness Family and rewatching Swiss Family Robinson. It was the time of the "back to the earth" movement and the commercial of the crying Indian (Italian fellow).

I felt like I was looking at an old Montgomery Ward or Sears catalog when looking at those cloths!

Your videos always make me feel happy and sad at once

I’m a (San Fernando) Valley Girl - this is “my” teen age era. I made all my own clothes - Prairie Dresses using vintage 1930s patterns, scarf-halter tops with neck-rings, and skirts that I would roll-up as I made my way down the block to El Camino Real High School. You know how Mom’s are.😘…and hitch-hiked to the Topanga Plaza ice skating rink. Fun times.

It would take me way too long to describe how wonderful life was back then. No internet, and no cell phones. Just a home phone with an answering machine. Back then, you had more privacy because if you didn’t want to be bothered, you just didn’t answer the phone. You let the machine do it. Then you could hear who it was when they left a message and you could pick up or not. The music was fantastic too. Not like the crap of today. I sometimes cry when I think how much better life was back then.

As a chick of the 70's this was fabulous to see, so many memories 😁 Thank you for the trip 😁 *To bad Schools don't teach HomeEc or Civics or Government any longer. Seems to me like it's seriously needed 🤔

We wore our boyfriend’s class ring, and wound angora yarn around it to make it fit. You would match the yarn color to your outfit. It was called “going with someone” if you were exclusive and had his class ring. Fun memories!

Born in 1969! Miss the 70s and 80s

Washing their hair with beer was so popular that a shampoo was made with the beer already in it; Body On Tap.

I miss roller rinks … and drive in movies, they were like the town square

Once I hit Jr. High in 1971, I never voluntarily wore a dress or skirt, again so no prairie fashions for me. I think the only thing mentioned here I did have was the Farrah Fawcett flip because all I needed to do was brush my hair over the back of my hand to style it. No disco for me. My boyfriend’s mother had an apartment house with a finished basement, my group of friends would hang out there for underage drinking and listening to rock. I was the youngest and didn’t have a driver’s license but one friend did as well as a car. ID checking wasn’t a big thing so it was easy to get into bars, lounges and clubs when underage. Still maintained my grades, still worked part-time, still paid for college as college wasn’t crippling expensive in the 70’s/early 80’s.

I was born 1969. I'm so blessed to have had an old school Americana childhood

You nailed it!! My 50 year reunion coming up. Wonderful memories. Thank you!

Thank You ... What a walk down memory lane ~ 🌼🏵️🌼🏵️🌼

You hit on some of the good ones but there's plenty more to go so let's get a part 2 episode in the works here.

A lot of these carried into the 80's as well... In the late 70's/80's I used Love's Baby Soft & Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific. I also was into Tiger Beat magazine in a major way & I practically lived on roller skates. I miss the good 'ol days, they were the absolute best!

This brought back so many sweet memories…. I graduated in 1976 so I can relate to most of these. Thank you!

What a great fun time for kids. Not for adults as my poor parents were dealing with Jimmy Carter's gas lines and economic problems. But for us it was getting dressed for dances at school, going to hundreds of concerts, going to the mall to buy your records. Lots of home basement parties, huck-a-poo shirts and frye boots. Frampton Comes Alive and Close to the Edge. You could walk anywhere safely and kids were free range. Bonne Bell lip gloss and Seventeen Magazine. Of course Star Wars was everywhere. What wonderful care free days we had.

Wow you’re videos really take me back!! I had almost forgotten the fuzzy colorful black light posters! It really was a great time to grow up. ✌️

Remember Herbal Essence Shampoo? It smelled so good. I wish they would bring that shampoo back. Thanks for the video.

That was really awesome!! All of it I loved. I have purple hot pants with pockets and white go go boots. I love them. Still have my book Are you there God its me Margaret . I dream of those times. Thank you👢

Exactly! ( Thanks for the Memories!)

What about hip huggers, pea coats, and body suits from Army/Navy stores? Smock tops?

You got alot. Avon honeysuckle was my favorite perfume, we liked our name combs, and our friends had them too. I am a 70s kid. I remember the shows and movies of the day, Star Wars, Dallas, i also liked Hardy boys and Nancy Drew mysteries on TV with Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson and reading the books. We had AM radios, and Drive in theaters. Grease was huge. We listened to and sang the album on our record players.

Usually you cover everything that was happening in whatever era you are covering n I LOVE watching your videos. This time you have omitted a MAJOR category of the 1970's n I know because I was 13 in 1970 n Rock N Roll was way more widespread than disco!!! I had my walls covered with posters of the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Johnny Winters, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Ten Years After, Traffic, Mott The Hoople, New York Dolls, Rod Stewart, the Monkees, Mamas n the Poppa's, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, Iggy Pop, The Small Faces, Jefferson Airplane, John Mayall, David Bowie, Jethro Tull, Marc Boland, all the heavy metal and blues rockers n of course, all the Glam Rockers that are the roots of the best classic Rock still popular today!!! We dressed like these bands, studied n lived their music day n night and Alice Cooper was my idol for years back then n Still is today,as he is STILL at age 70 plus in a working n famous band called Hollywood Vampires with Johnny Depp n Edgar Winter!!! These were my idols n I patterned my existence after these bands n their iconic music!!! Please include them n their genre in another Recollection Road endeavor!!!

One of the things I appreciate and miss about the 70s, girls, or guys for that matter, weren't covered in tatoos. I loved being a teenager in the 70s.

Shampoos: Herbal Essence, Short n Sassy. Culottes. Body suits. Gaucho pants. Wide bell-bottom pants. Long straight hair parted in the middle. Dr. Scholls sandals. Leggs pantyhose.

You forgot Andy Gibb!!! Loved him!

I’m 65 and remember all of these things ✌️😊

What I wore depended on what mood I was in. Maxi dress with the leather "big toe" opening sandals and "love beads"...or hip hugger jeans and t shirt--my hair was straight and very long and I wore a bandanna on my head and British Walkers shoes. I did wear peasant tops or halter tops and sometimes did a single braid with my hair...no "celebrity" hair styles or short skirts/hot pants for me. I also wore the wooden sandals if the mood struck. Braless if it wasn't a work day...employers would fire you if you wore "hippy clothes"...too radical for work place! Noxema...Herbal Essence shampoo...sweetheart soap...and Ban deodorant...even hippies bathed. My boyfriend (after high school..1971) looked like Lou Gramm!

My mom embroidered Holly Hobbies on a light blue denim shirt and sewed lace around the cuffs. These were so popular!! I still have mine.

I remember Book Fairs, reading all of Judy Blume's books including Forever, Disco and Disco Roller Skating. I loved Bonne Bell Lip Smackers and 10-0-6 Lotion, Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific and Lemon Up Shampoo and who could forget Love's Baby Soft Perfume?