Watergate is nothing compared to now.

No cell phones, personal computers, or social media. We had each other. Face to face. We talked, laughed, rode our bikes, climbed trees, watched Saturday morning cartoons, and Saturday Night Live at night, roller skated or skate boarded, and danced to some of the best music ever made. We didn't even realize how good we had it until it was gone.

We really didn't understand just how good we had it. I'd do it over again in a heartbeat.

Casey Kasem kept us up to date with the top 40 hits every week.

70’s was fun and carefree! Graduated High School in 81! 70s also was the best decade for Rock music!!!!

The Midnight Special and Wolfman Jack! Oh Yeah!

There will NEVER be a show like the original shows and cast of Saturday Night Live

Wish I could go back to the 70’s. I had the greatest childhood ever. Born in 64

I'm a late stage Boomer (1959) and was 11 in 1970. I Spent my Whole Teen Age years in the 70's. Best Music, Best Friendships, Best Experiences in my Life.

Who remembers “Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific” shampoo?

Got married in 71 and had a dumpy apt but loved every minute of it! Still married!!❤❤✌️

Spencer Gifts black light posters, muscle cars, smoke filled rock concerts, banana-seat bikes, Circus Magazine and watching Combat! That was my 70's and I loved it.

Generation X was born between 1965-1980, so most were not even alive in the 1970's. Many boomers did, in fact, grow up in the 70's.

Every car had a cigarette lighter, no one wore a seat belt, a bike helmet or checked their Halloween candy and yet, here we are, in our mid 60s and going strong.

I used to wear tube socks and now that I’m older I’m wearing something similar called compression socks🤣

1976 was the best! Bicentennial, country wide patriotism! Not like today!

The 70's were a great time to be a kid. I miss those days hanging out with friends, going to Saturday Matinees and we were always outdoors on our bikes or playing games.

Born 62, and i had the very special time portal in life to go through elementary, intermediate, and high school all in the 70s. Wouldn't change a thing.

70's kid here. I remember the news paper 📰 when Elvis died in 77.

It was great being 20 in the 70's , not so great being 70 in the 20's .... 🌎✌️🌍

Pretty safe to say that the youth growing up now are much more troubled than we were back in the 60s and 70s

the 70s was a great decade to be a teenager! i was 10 in 70, so i had the full brunt of the decade!

Everything from the 70’s was eventually banned but we all survived it. What a great era!

70’s were the best times of my life. Jr high and HS and 2 years of single fun after graduation then married in 79’. I wish I could go back and stay in the 70’s!

3:35 School House Rock vids were WONDERFUL. They should be run again nowadays.

Born in 57. Although 60’s was my grade school the 70’s was high school and marriage. Wide bell bottoms, earth shoes, mood ring, disco dancing on a lighted up floor, bf had a muscle car, mom had owl macrame wall hangings and plant holders, we had two rooms of shag carpet. One was black/orange and the other my sisters bubble gum room. Shag carpet mixed of three colors pink. My bf (future husband) loved Fonzie. He and buddies wore leather jackets. Then the end of the 70’s were many weddings. Every wedding the men had different colored tuxes.

I had tears in my eyes watching this, in this awful world we live in today its nice to go back and just see how good it really was, everybody helped each other, there was peace, and you could go anywhere without feeling threatend, kids today will never have this, im glad I was born when I was.

What I'd give to go back in time

GenX here, I completely remember ALL these things! I cherish the 70’s and I’m so glad I got to be a part of it! 🙌🏼🤩🤘🏼

Generation X kid here! I was born June 18,1967. Loved the 1970's! Hello from Tyler Texas!

Here are some other 70s things I remember, smiley face stickers, biorhythms, LED watches, clogs, Bermuda bags, rope bracelets, bell bottoms, dome hair dryers, foam curlers, halter tops, wood burning kits, plastic bug cooking pots, woven potholders, K-tel records, Cracked magazine, National Lampoon magazine, aluminum folding lawn chairs, aluminum siding, aluminum storm windows, ten-speed bikes, Pop Rocks, wallpaper was common, unleaded gas introduced, WIN buttons (Whip Inflation Now), Mark Spitz poster, Munich Massacre, many airplane hijackings, Apollo 13, Skylab, Skylab crash, Iran Hostage Crisis, Three Mile Island, Vietnam War/evacuation, Yom Kippur War, Earth Day, hippies, communes, streaking, OSHA, Clean Air Act. With "Ma Bell" long distance was expensive and phones had to be rented so most houses only had one phone. There were many small amusement parks Lincoln Park, Whalom Park, Rocky Point.

American Bandstand, Soul Train, Midnight Special. We were always groovin', day and night!

Crochet ponchos were very popular. Drive-in movies also.

The thing I remembered about the 1970ies was the feeling of gratitude. Ww2 vets were still very commonplace. Any adult or authority figure was yes Sir/No ma'am. Now the gratitude feeling is replaced with " I DESERVE IT."

Got married in 1974. We had some pretty dumpy apartments and one place we had to do dishes before we ate because of the roaches. We had lots of sadness and hardship but stayed together until 2021 when my wife died.

The 70's were very interesting in all aspects. My pre teen and teenage years were all in the 1970's. AND I MISS EVERYTHING !

The best years of our lives! Grew up playing with my Matchbox cars, Tonka trucks & Viewmaster to name a few. Learned a lot from watching Sesame Street & Electric Company. Rockin those bell bottom pants & Hang Ten t-shirts! Turned 5 years old in 1970. 14 by 1979.

Great time to be a teen Graduated in 75 bought a 56 mustang installed a 8 trak craig tape player . Married my high school sweet heart and still her one and only. Now retired have 4 grand children life has been good . And the music was great.

Dorothy Hamill was famous for the 'Wedge' haircut, not the bowl cut.

As a teen in the 1970's, we went to the local arcade to play video games for hours. When a friend got Pong, his home became the place to be. As basic as that game was, having it on a home TV felt like technology had reached its PINNACLE. What could be greater? Nobody imagined everybody would soon have games on their phones. Or even phones that weren't attached to a wall. Only in the world of the Jetsons!

70’s was an awesome decade to be a kid. 80’s was great for jr. High and high school. I still have my original Farrah Fawcett poster framed to this day 😍😍

I remember when we got cable TV in the 1970's. We got stations that had afternoon movies, late night movies, late-late night movies, morning movies and noon-time movies. It was great having the ability to watch movies form 1940's to late 1960's.

The Midnight Special was special because all (or nearly all) performances were LIVE. That's right, no lip synching. It was the next best thing to going to a concert.

Saturday Night Live debuted just when I started college. I’ll never forget sitting in the packed dorm TV lounge, all of us roaring in laughter.

Generation X kid here! Born on the 5th of July, 1969!!!!!!!!! We had a Pet Rock lol!

Sometime in the early 2000s I bought Schoolhouse Rock on DVD so that I could share it with my kids. I found Bob Dorough's website, sent him an email thanking him, and that I was now sharing his masterpieces with my kids. I got a short reply back saying thanks.

I remember every bit of the 70s there will never be another time like it one of my favorite memories is as simple as going to the mall and getting a slice of pizza and yes I had a pet rock Fred

9:40 We were poor, and my mom made a **LOT** of Hamburger Helper.

"We made Love in my Chevy van...."

Brings me back to a simpler time. 😪

I remember my mom raking the shag carpeting and using it to detect when any of us kids went in the front room where the entire room and furniture were only used for guests. My behind hurts just from that memory. Lol

Born in 1962 and I grew up in the 1970's . I love it!!!!!!! I wore hip hugger bell buttem jenes and clogs and I carryed a mental lunch box, I went to the drive in movies with my mom and dad and a friend of mine. Boy did I love growing up then. Lol, we watched that movie up in Alaska. My dad kept putting his hands over my eyes and it wasn't until I was a lot older that I found out why, scary as heck. I miss those days.

I remember my sister and I getting crochet vests. They were all the rage. I loved shagged carpets, I still have them today. Mood rings, pet rocks, bike riding without a helmet, earth shoes, clackers, cartoons, Tiger Beat magazine, playing in construction zones (we knew to avoid the wooden planks with 6 inch protruding nails, no one had to warn us), going out on Halloween without an adult. We had freedom that no kid today could possibly imagine.

Sir: Just wanted to say how very much I enjoy your channel. As someone who as born in the mid-1960s, you have allowed me to look back fondly, even wistfully, on past decades when America wasn't gripped in the insanity it struggles with today. Thank you for what you do.

I loved the 70's! So many wonderful memories of much younger days.

I was born in May of 1967, so I remember all of this and more. I had just turned 10 when "Star Wars" was released. I'll never forget it. I collected everything about the movie, and I still have all my old Star Wars action figures (including the original telescoping lightsabers). I also collected Wacky Packages, and later Star Wars cards. Kids road Big Wheels and Green Machines but when you got old enough, you had a bike. And for a real blast from the past - Sears and Kmart were a big deal! Now, good luck finding one. Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, Van Halen...so many great rock bands.

Conjunction Junction was sung by Jack Sheldon, trumpet player on the Merv Griffin Show.

Damn you! As soon as I saw "School House Rock" I started singing Conjunction Junction.😅

12:35 I remember waiting in line on odd/even days, to buy gas for 42¢ a gallon (in So. Cal.).

Our carpets were rust brown and orange countertops in the kitchen. 3 channels on the TV. We watched Waltons as a family and Mom watched Carol Burnett and Sanford and Son for comedy.😊

At least there was a Republican Party that held Nixon accountable!!

The mineral oil rain lamps. Does anyone else remember those?

I had a Friend who had a van in highschool. It was a beautiful looking red "perp van" with matching red shag carpeting and hippie decor. You could fit 8 and go to the drive in. Then go to Lucky Burgers. Those were awesome times.

You forgot about lawn darts. If you had a lawn dart and some clackers you were armed and ready for battle. And Dorothy Hamill did not have a bowl haircut. She had the Wedge. They were a bit different.

Besides Mad magazine there was a similar one called Cracked. My small rural hometown did not have a disco, but we had a country music radio station that played all the greats from that time. I would get in dad’s car sometimes and listen to the CB, and try to call my uncle who went by the handle of Cannonball.

I still think about the movie Jaws every time I get into the ocean. That movie ended our tourist season eight week early. No one was going into the water !

Leif Garrett, and then came Kiss. Best looking guys, great music, and freedom to roam with out worry. Wish we could bring it all back.

I was a Junior in high school in 1970. Two years later I was in the Marine Corps. But, I remember the 70's quite well and did a lot of growing up back then!

Born in 58. Great time to grow up….

Mork And Mindy

Last Oct I went and looked at a house in Missouri of which the previous owner had passed away. It was like a time capsule from 1976, and brought back so many memories! Earth tones everywhere, orange/rust colored shag carpeting in every room but the bathroom, hanging lamps over the kitchen counters, which were orange, multi colored wallpaper, a giant TV and stereo set encased in real wood that must've weighed 200lbs, avocado green cabinets and appliances, ( all from Sears) the biggest microwave I've ever seen ( you could easily fit a big turkey in it) with dials, not touch pads and so much more. Fun fact, I still recall going with my dad to a gas station in 79 and paying over a dollar per gallon for the 1st time for regular (leaded) fuel. He was so flabbergasted, he kept the receipt.

Dr. Scholl's wooden sandals and Coty Sweet Earth Perfume and DIY candles ( you got a jar, a wick and three different scents of wax chips to layer as you pleased.) The scents were sandalwood, grass, hay, patchouli, and fruit ones like strawberry, melon, tangerine and others. There was also a green apple perfume in a glass decanter . ( Their slogan was "wear it and he'll bite!) I remember in Science Class one day ( after most of the girls came in late from trying to run to class in chunky platform shoes 🙂) our teacher said " It's smells like fruit salad in here " and all the girls pulled out their little portable perfume packs and started naming their favorite scents! My room was wallpapered in bright pink and orange flowers and full of posters that I bought for ten cents and my brother put up in my room all these psychedelic glow in the dark black light posters. An era of hair, hot pants and hippies. Everyone was into the Bicentennial with colonial furniture, granny maxi dresses, the Bicentennial star logo was everywhere. Midi skirts and minis, and boys prom tuxedos were baby blue, yellow, peach and ruffled. Bright colored clothes were everywhere and embroidered jeans and ponchos. Space was big too as we all watched the rockets blast off. They televised the first Earth Day celebrations all day. I can still remember watching a group of people throwing a giant Earth Ball around. My Dad and older brother waiting to buy gas every other day when allowed. We had the rust brown shag carpet too and TV trays to eat your TV dinners on to watch all the sitcoms on then. And I finally admit it, I had a BIG crush on Bobby Sherman from " Here Comes the Brides." Days were spent outside, bike riding, playing with super balls, trading Wacky Packages and reading Seventeen, Mad and Glamour magazines. Glamour gave the instructions on how to do the Hustle.

I was definitely obsessed with Star Wars when it came out.

I was born in 1971. I remember all of this and wish I could go back! Back then, no cell phones, no internet, email or social media. If you wanted to talk to a friend, you called them on your "land line" and then rode your bike or had your parents drop you off. Great memories!

I was born 1965, and I had so much fun!! I actually still have a good amount of elementary/junior high school memories, but the mid 70s and 80s were awesome times!! I'd 100% go back if I could - I have no regrets about anything really, and even though there were bad times, I doubt I'd change anything drastically except not wanting to hurry up to become a "grown-up" lol Excellent decade 🥰

The annual family vacation was a long road trip using paper maps where you didn’t know if your family car would overheat or break down when you got there (both happened to us, on separate trips). Flying was a special treat where you actually used the barf bag during turbulence. It was the best of times. 😊

American Band Stand. Having a stereo with a stack of records or Cassette or 8-track tapes. Black light posters, bed spreads and rugs. Model cars, trucks and air planes, drink can pull tab chains hang from rear view mirror were popular in the 70s.

The 70s seemed like a chill decade. I became a young adult in 2000. I always wondered what it would be like to be a young adult in the 70s. All the restrictive barriers from the silent generation were breaking and people of all groups were becoming closer and pushing for peace. The music alone is what I wanted to experience. Hearing all of those classic R&B tracks as new releases had to have been memorable.

Don't forget the plastic that coverd the sofa, love seats and chairs!!

One of the nice things about the internet is that a lot of the TV shows you wanted to watch back in the day but couldn't because another show was on that you wanted to watch even more are now available online. The Midnight Special now has its own KZfaq channel.

Garret Morris screaming: "And now the news for the deaf." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Thanks for mentioning the bicentennial this time. I think many people didn't even know what it was when I mentioned it in the comments last time. That's kind of sad very sad

Remember midnight special! Loved it!!

Pretty spot on grouping. With the platform shoes, bell bottoms were a HUGE fashion, even with Earth shoes.

My friend's sister had a Pet Rock. She worked at Gimbel's in Pittsburgh, where they sold them. Good times!

In the 70’s we had a VW bus with a playpen in it for my brother and myself. We had dogs named Ringo and Zappa and we used to have dance parties in the living room before dinner several times a week. It was just my parents and us kids but I loved it. We use to go to the arcade or to the park to play frisbee. Good times. The eighties were pretty darn amazing as well!

I'm from Northborough, Massachusetts, -about 33 miles west of Boston. I grew up during this time. I'll be 60 in August. I can definitely state that almost nobody from my generation wanted to look like Adam Rich, and we certainly did NOT beg for a stupid "bowl cut," haircut! My parents were very liberal, but, when it came to haircuts , there were choices of barbers in our town, one of which was a retired Marine, who'd ONLY cut a boys hair in the USMC traditional ,"High and Tight, " fashion. Every male that walked in that barber shop would walk out with a quarter inch on the very top of his head, and absolutely baby slick sides and the back of their head. And, this barber actually retired in his 70s having earned a very comfortable middle class income from his barber shop, and ,having followed the book, "The Millionaire Barber," he actually did retire a multimillionaire! Being in the mid-decade, our tastes in music did very much despise disco! Boys weren't about learning dances like the hustle, or the chicken dance! They were excuses to leave the floor at the Rollerskating Rink, which, we did NOT call roller discos! These entertainment facilities owners were retired Marines & Police Officers, - my favorite place, Spinaround, was owned by the very conservative Former US Marines, - State Police Leiutenant, Mr. Crocker, and his brother, Boston Police Captain Crocker & their families. The young men of my generation hated Former president Jimmy Carter, for his support of the Ayatolla against the Shah of Iran in the Iranian revolution, AND we hated the Muslim extremists who truck bombed the United States Marine Corps barracks in Beruit, Lebanon, in 1983, - prompting many of us to head to our nearest Marine Corps Recruit Station! We wore Mickey Mouse flipping the bird, t shirts, which stated: F**k Iran, and showed our patriotic support for the hostages Iran took by supporting Ronald Reagan for President in 1980! The democrats did so much harm to our returning troops from Vietnam, we had to support a conservative to restore the Republic, which is exactly what Reagan did!

I still listen to disco music sometimes. Didn't care much about star wars. My brother was is vietnam from 68 to 1970, thank god he came back ok. I miss those tmes , people were nicer an we actually talked in person an wrote letters . None of the woke an racist crap today an not getting shot at the resturant, school or music events.

I remember chasing the mosquito truck down the street on my bikes with my friends and running home from school and watching Dark Shadows.

I was. Elementary school age in the 70s. I remember watching the Partridge family. Loved Saturday morning cartoons and school house rock had catchy tunes.

1970's had great disaster films like Earthquake, Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure, Airport, Airport '75, Black Sunday just to name a few.

I Was born in 1959. Was a kid in the 60s and 70s and a young man in the 80s. Great times/memories. Wouldn't trade places with a kid today for all the money in the world. Incredible original music: 60s, 70s and 80s.

John Travolta. He started out on Welcome Back Kotter then made 2 blockbuster movies in a row, Saturday Night Fever and Grease. And Elton John. I remember he was the first white person to perform on Soul Train. I believe he sang Philadelphia Freedom. Imo, the best decade for movies was the 1970s. SOOO many classics were made in the 70s

0:36 the little boys with bowl cuts on the orange shag carpet is peak 70s!!!

I used to love bench seats in cars...it was like sitting on a sofa while u drove around Edit: born in 1962, the 70s were the BEST!!!

I loved all of these from the 70's. The only one your forgot was Donny Osmond. He was my crush back then. I had his posters all over my bedroom walls. Thanks for sharing.

I was born 1965, I remember having Schwinn Varsity 10-Speed Bike, Dark Green. I also had Honda 1975 Z-50 Mini Bike in Yellow. Use to organize baseball games with my Friends in Neighborhood at school Diamonds in Summer, all day. I remember bell bottom pants. Cars were big, remember my friend's parents had early 70's Station Wagon back seat faced back of car, coolest seat in car, window rolled down, driver touched a button.

Did you realize that when you showed the boys with the bowl cuts that the boy on the right was Ben Affleck when he played CT Granville in The Voyage of the Mimi. That show ran on PBS around the time of 3-2-1 Contact and The Electric Company. My son watched them all but especially loved The Mimi. We recorded all the episodes on VHS and watched them for years. When my son was 6 we went to Gloucester where the Mimi was moored and since my brother was friends with the owner Peter Marston (who played Captain Granville) we got to go aboard and I got pictures of my son at the wheel. He was in 7th heaven! Mr. Martson's wife and daughter gave us a tour of the Mimi.

April 1972...thank you mom and dad!!!

There will never be an era such as the seventies. And we survived!!!!!