OMG, I had a three speed banana seat bike and had to race home when the street lights came on also. Great times.

So much fun in the playground where everything was made of metal. Lol you’d burn your legs on the scorching hot sliding board reflecting that burning summer sun, then go sit on the burning hot metal swing seat and swing as high as you could then ride the “merry go round” where you stood and held on to the bar that came up from the floor while soneone pushed you fast around and around (holding onto those hot handles) ... LOL when I think of playgrounds then ... being outside... nothing padded .. nothing plastic ... ...just fun

Where I live there were no streetlights but once it starts getting dark you better get your butt home

@@debbiemullen2574 i hope you made it home in time..lol I often wish we could turn back the hands of time and go back but we can't let's be grateful for the time we had.

I had a one speed purple banana bike. Wore it out.

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@@zim1966 yes!!!

Shit I'm 59 years old and I still watch Rudolph every year! And the Grinch!

Don't forget the Sears catalog

@@Pops-km8xt Yes. We all looked through the Sears Christmas catalog and knew exactly what we wanted. I never got what I always wanted but that's life.

Yeah, because all those child abductions didn't really happen in the 70s. Data shows the decades before the 90s were actually more dangerous.🙄

Yea, I don’t know why the boomer/Gen X generation were such helicopter parents despite not growing up with it. In some states in US for example it’s illegal for a kid under 14 to be outside by themselves. The boomer/Gen X generation complains the younger generations are soft, despite them being the ones giving out the participation trophies and coddling their kids to the point they won’t go outside.

Nah, the 80s and early 90s were like that, too.

Cell phones hadn't been invented then; it wasn't like people made a principled decision to abstain from using them because we were morally tougher or something like that. That being said, parents seemed to be a lot more relaxed in the 1970s. This was before the great Stranger Danger moral panic of the 1980s, which began the trend of progressively chipping away at childhood freedom. Greenstick fractures, sprained ankles, and stitches were just part of the territory of being a kid. The resigned comment, "Well, you can't wrap 'em up in cotton wool" was invoked whenever some such essentially-minor injury occurred.

Back when you " Called" on your friend by walking to their house and knocking on the door.

Absolutely agree. Now that I am older and live in a senior apartment complex, the first complaint from others here is no one comes to visit. I am lucky that I never had kids, married and siblings so not much has changed from 1970s to 2022.

Yes even friends, we visited, no texting all day. Delia Morris

My parents and their friends got together often for dinner parties🙂

Amen to this... definitely the anti-shutdown society.

Social media has ruined us.

But you had to get back when the street lights came on

Y’all had street lights? Dang, y’all were fancy. Out here in the country, we came home when we couldn’t see Jack shit.

@@abolishwelfare Who was Jack Shit, and why did you want to see him? Was he handsome?

Life was great up until cellphones came and ruined it all.

@@mikeh1473 WTF are you trying to say by "weren't diverse"? Just thought you'd sneak that one in dog whistle style eh?

Yes me and my sister 61and64 great times

Know just how you feel! Kids could be free to play, there was so much to learn and explore, and the world was saner. Not perfect, of course, but so much different.

I was born Dec 7 1964 I can relate

I'm with ya 👍 But We The People are here right now for a purpose 👍 We have seen some radical, completely insane changes and it just doesn't jive with what's going on out there. I knew good FBI agent's who would be so ashamed of what is happening. The shooting in the early eighties took place right outside my Dad's office building. I'm sure that there were Clown's in the FBI and the other letter agencies, but not like it is now 🧐 When We The People can't trust our so called leadership with 🤔😞 We The People better Wake Up and Defend Our Country 🙏 Until We The People demand TERM LIMITS NOW 👍, nothing will ever change. Too much temptation and they All end up taking the Blood Money 🤨 A good Swamp Draining might help usher in some more better times 👍 2 Chronicles 7:14 is a Promise 👍 Viva Cristo Rey 🙏

I was born June 24, 1964. I wish life was still that easy going and children could be as free as we were. I had a set of clackers. I don't know how many times I hit myself with them. They taught me pain control and perseverance. I had a mood ring, blue corduroy platform tennis shoes, and yellow elephant pants. Those were the day. American Bandstand with Dick Clark and Soul Train.

Yes! I loved looking through that thing. It was oddly magical.. to see so many new toys and things I had to have that I didn't even know existed lol..

I had one of the last issues of the catalog but moving several times it was either thrown away or lost. I enjoyed looking through them

Books of blue chip stamps

Me and my sister did this too…

Yep... straight to the bra section. Or was that JC Penney?

"There was a covert network of stay-at-home moms who would monitor us discretely and communicate with all the other moms they knew in the community...." And our mums did this feat without cellphones or video cameras! 👍😊👍

I was expected to call if I would NOT be coming home for dinner but eating at a friends house and then hanging out. Then it was reversed and the friend would eat at our house and hang out. Probably listening to records and/or playing board games or, ahem.........playing OUTSIDE.

Same here Keith. Born in '63. We'd camp out in each other's yards on summer nights. Sit on the floor talking on the only phone in the house, quietly to not be overheard! I'd give anything to go back to those times. We made our own fun. Now look what the hell happened. 50 years later, and I realize I don't belong here anymore. My mind looks to the past, never to the future because things get worse with each passing day. But, they can never take the past away from us and we won the growing up lottery by being able to be a kid in the 70's and enter into adulthood in the 80's. I wouldn't trade that for anything.

Born in 62.. Me too, and the 70's died with us, as we turned 18 in 1980...

You have to have kids to make that happen. The divorce rate is over 80% initiated by women. The marriage rate is at a all time low ! Men understand it’s a raw deal nowadays.

Right there with you. Gawd I miss those days.

Me too. I miss Kaboom cereal, Libby Land TV dinners and the Howard Johnson frozen chicken croquets. I miss Howard Johnson’s. I loved those chicken croquets…you can’t get them anymore.

Same.

@Tiki Tavi You and me both!!! 👍

@@penelopelopez8296 LOL - Kaboom cereal!! So much sugar, so bad for you, yet incredibly good!!!

1976 was the Country's 200th Birthday. What a party!!!

I was born in 1957 so the 60s late 60s and 70s definitely were my time. And I loved it and I miss it. Just wish I was smarter if I ever had to go back but at least I’m still alive. These days if I did the same things there’s no way I would still be around. Thank God for the 60s and 70s.

Kids today will have the same bittersweet memories about their lives now. They will look back fondly about today like u do about the 70s.

@@bryanj7063 Yeah. I'm sure in 20-30 years they'll fondly look back on having politics, a million false gender options and everyones sexual preferences forced into every possible thing in their lives. Memories.

@@festushaggen2563 And the biggest decision they will ever have to make, ‘What are their Pronouns’. 🤮

Unless you were not white, it was a good time. My best friends were Black or Hispanic. I notice a lot of these stories have few of the real people.

@@bryanj7063 Doubtful. They better start learning how to speak Chinese if they get off their cell phones long enough...and twitter.

68 as well for me also, I was born whan my dad was in Vietnam. All of us were truly lucky to be young in this era the 70's and 80's! Sucks getting older but I wouldn't trade places with any young person! Today's society is so upsidedown, today's youth are being cheated big time!! Where does the time go.........Peace.

Also born in 68...

Same here!

@@tommcdonough6086 Same here. Born in 67 and my Dad was in Vietnam when I was born too. 😊

Wouldn’t not have wanted to be a kid in any other decade.Would have hated being a 90’s kid.also born in 68

We went by ourselves..and we were safe

The Monkees.

saw Kiss, aerosmith and other cool bands on Midnight special I remember seeing the sex pistols on there too, Don Kirshners in concert also

I remember watching that show now that you mention it. I wasn't very old either but I remember liking Wolfman Jack.

I just heard a song with him in the background.

Anyone remember Dr Dimento on the radio?

That was the first place I ever saw Fleetwood mac, David Bowie, basically all of the greats started on midnight special, loved Friday night, us kids would stay up late and watch it with mom,mom loved the show she was a true rocker, we even played queens ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST at her funeral, been thinking about her a lot today and this took me back to good times thank you for the memory

Mom would always save her tips to buy school clothes/supplies and gifts for birthdays and Christmas. But when a new Disney came out ( when Disney was actually worth something) she would take us to the drive in to see it. She would get a big paper sack and pop enough popcorn to fill it almost half full. Before the movie started there were swings, teeter toters and merry go round up by the screen where we would play. Then the lights would go out as the signal to go back to the car and watch the 2 cartoons that were shown before the movie started. It was a set price per car no matter how many in the car. Now they charge per person. Remember every Friday night at 11PM the TV stations would show a scary movie?

We were lucky definitely.

It was a magical time to be growing up in the 70's! I loved everything of this decade.

I remember my Holly hobbie! I also had a Mrs Beasley doll which I loved to death! I've been missing the 70s a lot here lately. Everything is just crap nowadays. It's so depressing.

Yes I remember Al of that too

Me too

Yep

Same here. Born in '60.

Same, 1960, sometimes bothers me time is almost up.

I was born in '60 too.... we were the last generation to live like true kids! Sometime in the 80's something happened, things changed and life was never the same again. It seemed like society became so materialistic... it was all about what you had, to flaunt the newest and best. Gone are the days of $1.99 keds sneakers and blue jean cutoffs for the summer. We didn't care about material things as much, we were much more into creating fun with our imagination and with our friends. We could spend days with nothing more than a cardboard box that the new refrigerator came in, or making a go-kart out of a discarded baby carriage :) A neighborhood monopoly game could go on for two days, and 'kite season' was a 10 cent purchase that would keep you entertained for a week or more! Remember those days?

My sister and I loved Dark Shadow's! Barnabas Collins! 😂

Don't forget Saturday night at 9PM was The Love Boat, followed by Fantasy island at 10PM.

La musique était incroyable. Je me souviens qu'à chaque semaine il y avait une publication du classement des groupes et chansons. Une feuille que nous retrouvions chez le disquaire. Que la musique était bonne.

@@stephendacey8761 Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers in the 21st Century, Six Million Dollar Man, The Incredible Hulk, Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley, and Charlie's Angels... not in that order.

YES!

Do you remember Challenge of the Sexes on ABC World of Sports?:D

@@tonytygrrHI yes

WCW RASTLIN on saturdays along with the American Bandstand and Soul Train and of course The Osmond Family and can't forget the Jackson Five show as well and later on Wide World of Sports and all of this made for a real good saturday day of memories !!! Oh yeah and the cartoons before all this classic programming was on saturday mornings !!!

Carol Burnett and Hee-Haw. Disney's Sunday Night Movie. The Sonny and Cher show. LOL

I remember it well!

"establish justice ensure domestic tranquilityyyyyy! "

@@Yesica1993 you got it! Yay!!!

Conjunction Junction was a good one.

And don't forget the Friday before the new cartoon season started, most of the networks would have a 30 preview of the upcoming line up.

Always up before the parents who would then always ask the rhetorical question about why you can get up early on Saturday for cartoons no problem but can't get up during the week for school!

Yup, that was me, and then watched sports afterwords. Going outside would follow.

Definitely.

And the 1976 Olympics.

And the freedom train.

@steven milstead No, I remember Bruce Jenner, back before he lost his f'ing mind.

@steven milstead He's not, he's a guy who got his dingus cut off. If a soldier has his dingus blown off, is he any less a man?

Yes! Take me with you!

I’m on the constant lookout!

Yeah. All of the schools i had gone to either got knocked down amd rebuilt in a hi-tech fasion, or got a futuristic upgrade, so none looked as i remembered, only the names and locations.

WAAAAY AHEAD OF YA'....dang, can you believe we are now considered OLD MIDDLE AGE....I'm LIKE HOLD THE HELL UP.....NOT THAT...!!!!!

I’m working on that.

When Lincoln Logs were real wood.

And don't forget the barrell of monkeys... Fun game😊

"Barbie" lunchbox?

And wondering if you would have any "cute boys" in your class.

Me too!!!!!! I was born in Dec 57. Huge crush on David Cassidy. Had to find all the outfits at Casual Corner that Charlie's Angels wore. LoL.......

My store was Judy’s

1957 ROCKS!

@@kat35lulu88 loved Casual corner!

Me born 1959 . So the 70s and late 60s was a blast!!

Oh yea, waking up at 6:30 a.m. and watching the bars until bug bunny or whatever came on at 7, haha.

@@Stephen-ob3ij that tone at night though. Ugh.

❤

You are so on point. Can I add TV shows like Zoom, The Magic Garden, Sesame Street, Joya's Fun School, Bozo the Clown. THANKS for sharing great memories of the 70's.

Awesomeness! I remember Mr. Rourke on Fantasy Island “Da plane! Da plane!” Captain Kangaroo was another one I remember that brought back some memories,also. I remember one episode on Capt. Kangaroo , that warned kids about getting in cars with strangers and being kidnapped. I don’t know if you might have remembered this, I grew up in Cali; on late Saturday afternoons we had Channel 2 (“There’s only one,Two”) and they played Chiller Diller theater. Also, on the weekend, out in California, we had Bob Wilkins hosting Creature Feature Theater.

I was born in 69 too. You can get the same tube socks on amazon.

Lawrence Welk on Sunday nights. Soul Train. Scooby-Doo. HR Puf-n-Stuf.

We were ALWAYS playing outside...I was playing in the mud one day, it was fun 😊

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Hear Hear! :)

I was a little kid in the late 70s ,my fondest memories were during that time.

I agree completely. Having the internet now has its “upside”, but life in general was better without it.

😎👍 EXACTLY 😀👍

Yes, the best!

Hello Dianna I see happiness all around you, please can I share from it??

And you scouted for empty bottles to return for the deposit money, to buy ice cream on your own :)

@@peggyl2849 And tried collecting aluminum cans to be recycled just to have spending money.

Like in Chicago in the 60's the Good Humor truck.

Minnesota ice cream trucks were fast

@@dst1311 I remember the first ice cream "truck" was just a big aluminum cooler on the back of a bicycle. Iowa here.

Let's don't forget Led Zeppelin.

@@jimmyarmijo792 Led Zeppelin, The Stones, Black Sabbath, Oh and Iron Butterfly (Ina-goda-da-vida) I had over 300 albums of top hard rock bands.

@@jmead2294 Any Grand Funk Railroad!?!

Oh yes, I had the first Grand Funk album (Red cover) then I had “Closer to Home”, “ Grand Funk Live”, and “E-Pluribus Funk”.

Saturday morning cartoons marvel pj's and big bowl of sweet cereal ... absolute bliss

There is still good in the world and I pray some of it has reached you. Don’t give up on us just yet.

Best years of my life.

I'm not sure... But maybe they were called "HIPPY-BEADS". ???

Everything but the bell bottoms and disco?

@@LadyGreenEyes964 I'll take bell bottoms and disco over saggy pants and rap any day.

Nor is nostalgia.

Great, but not so great for me, I was younger. I had rules, parents, teachers, homework, bedtimes, chores, parents divorce, moving every year, not getting along with other kids. It may seem nice in hindsight, but remembering my head space I was in then, it wasn't that great. But that's just me. Still better than anything in the 21st century though. I was just highlighting that sometimes feelings of nostalgia can cloud the actual memories of the frame of mind you were in back then, having no knowledge of future events.

Same here!

Wes, Thank you , your comment , a family picnic at the Russian River in California, just hit me , the smell, the heat, the laughter, yes those were the best days, As a teenager the Kegs ...😁

Me too! Add drunk-tank from being completely wasted at the grade 10 school dance!🥃🥃🥃🥃👮🏼‍♂️👮🏼‍♂️🚔 My brother bootlegged some 5-Star whiskey for me…he was Aux RCMP at the time!🤣

The government has more control over you than ever, today.

C'est triste pour eux. Ils n'auront pas d'aussi beaux souvenirs que nous. Il y avait tellement de choses à faire et beaucoup de divertissement. Nous avions également beaucoup d'imagination et elle était encouragé par notre environnement.

I was born in 69 so I know what you mean. What a time to be alive.

AGREED! Born in 70 and heck it was amazing.

agree 100 percent!

Born in 70. Saw Star Wars in the theater at age 7... the perfect age!

@@greedo2660 same here, my parents took me to see Star wars at the drive inn movie theater remember those ? They also took me to see close encounters later that year. I was 4 and still remember the latter part of the 70s.

🌟SO TRUE🌟 !!!

Also some of the absolute worse cars ever made! Especially mid-late 70's!

Me too. Would love to go back!!!

@@dannyjacobs6734 Right?! AMC Pacer comes to mind. Pinto's and Gremlins oh my. lol

@@dcore64 WHOOA WHOOA WHOOOOOAA there!!! Those fine Kenosha gems especially my orange Gremlin with the pioneer 8 track....still going....yeeehaaaw

@@jimoconnor6382 Hahahaaa. I had a 73 Celica ST, looked like a little Camaro. Great car. Let my idiot Bro in law borrow it, told him just make sure to check the oil. He didn't. Now I'm the idiot. Moral... NEVER, loan anyone a car! Would still be running. I could peel out in 3 gears in that car. Oh wait... Japanese car. oops. 70's car though. 76 was the swing year I think? Props to your Grem.

Proud to be a 70's kid✌🏾✊🏾

@@elwin38 me too!

Me too!

They were fun!

Best days of my life❤️❤️

Don't forget Carroll O'Connor and Charlton Heston.

🤣I remember singing the preamble to the school house rock tune for that same test in 8th grade. Loved school house rock.

Didn't sing the pream le for a test but instead mine was Conjunction Junction for a 7th grade English test. I remember our teacher telling us to turn our papers over and begin the test and the entire class started singing this song. All our teacher could do was laugh and say that she knew what we all did on Saturday morning g and that she expected all of us to pass with no trouble..

OMG!! I did the same thing!! It sure helped me out with that test!!

Conjunction,junction,what's your function? Hooking up words,and phrases,and clauses...🎶😅

@@maryannturton9830 Thanks a lot!! Now I'll be humming that little ditty all danged day!! 😜

Agreed

The 80's, at least the early 80's, were pretty good too. Things really started to go off the rails in the 90's and 2000 and beyond has been a sheet show.

yes The Golden ages,The 1960's my childhood the 1970's my teen years.Would not have it any other way.Thanks Dad and Mom in heaven.

@@gabrielpowers766 Have you ever thought that the times we lived in back then have prepared us for now? Something to think about in so many ways.....like are we the last generation who really knows right from wrong?

@@gabrielpowers766 100% true, that's what i think exactly.

January 1960 here!

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Me too !!! Best of times !!!

Why do people think that playing outside every waking moment makes them special or something? I have heard it so many times and I don't get it. Playing outside was fun but playing inside was fun too, reading, listening to music, playing games etc.

@@su-rv2uq Because it was real. The bruises, scraps and blood were hard earned. The adjusting to changing weather was real. The smells, the noise, the sheer scale of experience could never be matched sitting inside. We didn't have safe spaces we ran. We didn't have reality shows we chased firetrucks instead.

And we didn't know what we had when we had it. Lets be grateful for the time we did have!

@@su-rv2uq At my house, if you stuck around the house any longer than an hour after breakfast, you were either chased outside or put to work. The same was true for my friends as well. The house was all of our mother's domain. Mom or Dad always had a "special" job that needed to be done so, reading, listening to music or watching TV was just not done during the day. Unless it was raining, you were outdoors burning off energy and getting plenty of fresh air. It was great growing up during the 70s and 80s.

I'm with ya🥲

Ditto! you took words out of my mouth. Sooo glad this was shared to me!💞wonderful memories

I did the same. I can still hear the generator running on the decorated truck waiting for my turn to get some ice cream. Those days were another world back then.

Visited my neices once, heard ice cream man, instinctively knocked them down and took off running up the road in my sock feet.

You really took me back with Mentioning Mr,Softee. That was the best part of a hot day on my block in Queens N.Y. And who could forget that music!

spent my paper route money on Mister Softee.

The best drive-in movie I saw was Bruce Lee’s last movie, “Game of Death”. It played with a double feature movie called “Embryo”, with Rock Hudson …..it was crazy.

My school played music on the PA system too. I would always listen when I was in the hallway. My teacher played " You Light Up My Life " on the piano and we sang along

I was in first grade in 1975 too. I recall learning to do the hustle in music class in third grade.

When your 10 gallon hat was feeling 5 gallons flat, didn’t you hanker for a hunk of cheese?

I will never forget that nauseating feeling I got when I had dropped my lunch box and heard the broken glass in the Thermos ☹🤢

I had a Hot Wheels lunchbox. And, oh yeah!, ditto on dropping the lunchbox

omg!! I smelled the same bologna when they showed those lunch boxes! Amazing memory trigger...

Yep, even if mom packed you peanut butter and jelly sammy, you could still smell the bologna from days ago.

My wife and I never got to see the Bee Gees. But we did get to see Barry Gibb and family at the Hollywood Bowl. There was a bus from our town that took you there, these buses exist to reduce traffic. On that bus was the reunion you're talking about. I was like, holy shit, everyone on this bus is roughly the same age. Even better? This was an end of Barry's tour and he hasn't really toured much since. If I took a peanut and threw it gently over my shoulder -- it would have hit Olivia Newton John. I'm serious. Because of some last minute cancellation miracle I had better seats than her. And if I stood up, turned, and threw a peanut fairly hard -- it would have hit Barry Manilow. I'm not making any of this up.

@@screenplayhouse4932 That's a great story! Must've been SURREAL! I wish I was there!

@@raydelrosario2366 Super Crazy Surreal. My wife and I are moving an hour out of town and this will be our 'When we were in LA' story. Since you liked it, a bonus detail. (Oh, shoot, I already forgot it. Umm.) (Oh yeah!) So, remember, I'm like dead center about 6 rows back. You need to know the Hollywood Bowl is like a picnic affair, where if you get there early you eat in the lovely LA summer eve as the sun starts to set. I was done eating, got up to stretch my legs, and saw a skinny LA aspiring actress type. She had a perfect figure but weighed nothing. She's eating some serious steak, Mac and Cheese, and has a beer in tow. I thought something but had no one to say it too. I approached a rock and roll lady in her 60's and said, "I just witnessed something that doesn't happy. See that girl over there? Look at what she's eating and look at her weight. I thought all 'those' girls out here ate nothing but salad." This 60 year old 'groovy' looking women smiled and said, "Being that thin can make you really hungry sometimes." But she said it with this funny look, as if to say, "Are you flirting with me or just shooting the shinola?" She was... smirking. A day later I learned why she was smirking. I had been talking to Barry Gibb's wife... but didn't know it.

@@screenplayhouse4932 one of those days huh...lol.

That would be sooooo cool.........

I especially liked mini-skirts and hot-pants! Who could forget the tank-tops! The girls made it damn near impossible for a boy to focus on schoolwork!😍😂

@@57Jimmy And remember the girls' tie-behind-the-neck halter tops??

I left my heart in San Francisco: I'm more of a sixties kid!✌️

Not going to argue with a clueless idiot. Have a good one.

@@lisamckennon3025 This s beautiful how're you

is this my sister? thats when Saturday morning cartoons RULED!

In our house it was Donny Osmond. I remember my oldest sister and her friends hanging out and playing Donny Osmond records over and over for hours, in the 70s I knew the words to puppy love off by heart.

Gull. Look. What. You’ve. Done. To. May. May. And. My. Whole. Wuhld. ... as Marcia Brady watched

Tiger Beat was the best. I had Donny Osmond and Vince Van Patten all over my bedroom walls. Good memories.

S-A...T-U-R...D-A-Y NIGHT!!

Was also a 70's kid from age 2 to 11. Fun times.

I'm from the 90s but I'm sure the feelings are the same....I often reminisce about the good times.

Good lord, you must be almost exactly my age hehe. I was about 6 in 1970, and even here in the small island of Bermuda I can remember quite a bit of these references, being so physically close to the US (we're a British colony). Personally I'd also love to be able to relive a lot of those things, and someday I'll have the space to create a special 70's room, containing the decor (shag for days!) and a classic sound system (some of the best audio gear ever made came from later in the decade).

The best was BEING ABLE TO PLAY OUTSIDE all day long without fear of being shot or kidnaped. Walking to and from school with your friends without fear. Disney entrance fee so cheap you could go all summer long until you got bored with it. Going camping and fishing at the last minute and not having to worry about making reservations or even a park fee.

I was born in 64 so I was definitely a 70s kid too. Like most boys my hero's were Evel Knievel, Steve Austin and of course The Fonz and my favorite movies were Star Wars, Superman and Smokey and the Bandit, my mom wouldn't let me see Jaws because she thought it would make me afraid of swimming but I saw it anyway and didn't tell her, I was not afraid to swim afterwards BTW. The 70s were definitely a great time to be a kid.

I know... Right!?

ate it, too LOL LOL LOL LOL

Yes it is awesome! I can't wait to show my daughter

I had the yellow plastic snoopy lunch box. Used it for years!

I had the Space 1999 and '77 Star Wars lunchboxes (the Black one with Luke's X-wing getting shot at by the tie fighter)

Remember the Cox airplanes?

Yes! theplanes were cool & remember getting those "Vampire" kites from the supermarket where you stuck the eyes on--they didn't last long, but they definitely flew really high! so much fun

I had forgotten about those wooden planes. Yes, the paper and plastic kites.

@@mcc28joe yeah, those were Gayla Kites, very popular in the 70's, Ebay has a few of them on there, was looking recently , the memories!

@@geraldboykin6159 yup, good times, had 2 of them , PT-19, and a X-Wing fighter StarWars, control line .049 Engine planes, in 1979,

BTW- your mom called... you're still grounded! lol

Those sound like great ideas!

What happened to the music? We were absolutely blessed by the sheer talent of that decade.

I was born in 67 . . And I also hit double digits in the '70s . . Hahaha 😂 .

Haven't heard that in years well said and spot on🤣👍

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Omg, King Kong, who could forget that one! And Body Snatchers scared the crap out of me. Can't hear a garbage truck without being taken back. Back when theaters showed only 1 movie, and if it was making money, they held it over another week. Saw Stars Wars 12 times. Never got old. Will never like anything more than those first 3. 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade. Still get the same chills when the first 3 notes start on the big screen. Those movies blew our socks off. And yep, Jaws freaked us all out too!

Same year 1969, age 53. Same everything, only from the Panhandle/South Plains of West Texas.

1967. I remember pulling my feet up into the seat, during 'Jaws'. Blount county, Alabama.

Born in 71. My favorite show of the 70’s was Battlestar Galactica. I also had a Space 1999 lunch pal in 76 in kindergarten. The 80 were more my time, but the late 70’s were pretty awesome too.

@@ml5955 Battlestar Galactica and Space 1999 were great!! Lorne Greene talking about Earth!!!