October 1970 I had just gotten out of boot camp. Years later when I told my 17 year old daughter about the draft she said “That’s illegal” . Kids today have no idea what we faced at 18.

1970's-such a great time to grow up!

Great! Thanks Fred, wonderful as always!

Seeing the 7 Eleven store reminds me when Icee's first came out. Each store had coke flavor and another variety, cherry, banana, grape.... trick was finding a store in that day had the one you liked best. Banana flavor was my favorite. Lucky to have lived in the 60s and 70s. Great time.

"Man, what a time" ! Yeah, what a time. More halcyon memories from our favourite videographer . Thanks for the morning memories, pal. It does seem more desirable and palatable with the passing of time. There's always something we can identify with, with your videos, Fred. Thanks, pal. You do good.

The flu pandemic was called Hong Kong flu and it was very bad. Probably couldn’t call it that today. Great video as usual!!

I was 16 in 1970 and we share a lot of the same memories. We were fortunate to have grown up during this time period, thanks for another great Boomer video!

Glad you're back with the "Day in The Life of..." series, they are awesome, Fred!

Mom, Dad... We’re so jealous of your childhood. Not that ours was any slouch by any means. But, still jealous. I’m sorry your watching this great country you grew up in crumble in your twilight years. Please don’t blame us... It’s your grandkids fault!! Sincerely, Generation X

The full Billboard top 40 for October 31, 1970.... 40: "Heaven Help Us All" - Stevie Wonder 39: "Make It Easy On Yourself" - Dionne Warwick 38: "Do What You Wanna Do" - Five Flights Up 37: "Yellow River" - Christie 36: "Lookin' Out My Back Door/Long As I Can See the Light" - Creedence Clearwater Revival 35: "Gypsy Woman" - Brian Hyland 34: "Snowbird" - Anne Murray 33: "Ungena Za Ulimwengu (Unite the World)" - Temptations (bet the DJs hated introing that!) 32: "(I Know) I'm Losing You" - Rare Earth 31: "Lucretia Mac Evil" - Blood, Sweat & Tears 30: "Our House" - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young 29: "Montego Bay" - Bobby Bloom 28: "See Me, Feel Me" - The Who 27: "The Tears of a Clown" - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles 26: "Stand By Your Man" - Candi Staton 25: "Engine Number 9" - Wilson Pickett 24: "Deeper and Deeper" - Freda Payne (my mom called it "deeper and deeper with payne") 23: "Julie, Do Ya Love Me" - Bobby Sherman 22: "God, Love, and Rock and Roll" - Teagarden and Van Winkle 21: "Out in the Country" - Three Dog Night 20: "Super Bad (Parts 1 and 2)" - James Brown 19: "Cry Me a River" - Joe Cocker 18: "El Condor Pasa" - SImon and Garfunkel 17: "I Think I Love You" - The Partridge Family 16: "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" - Diana Ross 15: "It Don't Matter To Me" - Bread 14: "Look What They've Done to My Song Ma" - The New Seekers 13: "Somebody's Been Sleeping" - 100 Proof Aged in Soul 12: "Express Yourself" - Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band 11: "Still Water (Love)" - Four Tops 10: "It's Only Make Believe" - Glen Campbell 9: "Lola" - The Kinks 8: "Candida" - Dawn (back when you could have a hit song about a yeast infection) 7: "Indiana Wants Me" - R Dean Taylor 6: "All Right Now" - Free 5: "Green-Eyed Lady" - Sugarloaf 4: "Cracklin' Rosie" - Neil Diamond 3: "Fire and Rain" - James Taylor 2: "We've Only Just Begun" - Carpenters 1: "I'll Be There" - Jackson 5 (third week at #1, would hold the spot for two more weeks after this)

Wonderful stuff as always, Fred. Yes, all quite familiar, too. The older I get, the more I miss those days.... Thanks!

Now I can’t get Green Eyed Lady out of my mind. Lol Thanks for the great video Fred. At least for a little bit I could go back in time.

Fred.. wasn't sure how you were EVER going to top some of your very best videos.. but dude, this one is creeping towards the top! The memories this brings back are amazing!! Yeah, I was only 10 in 1970, and of course never would have been allowed inside a strip show, but, even still, this is one of your all-time best, ever! Thanks for the great memories, and most of all, thanks for taking the time out to post these gems, they are all very much appreciated by MILLIONS!

Green eyed lady....that song just brought back a flood of memories from 1970. :)

1:20 "Our black lab brings in the morning paper, as he was trained... but this time from the neighbor's lawn" 🐶😅

A FredFix. Just what I needed. I love A Day in the Life anthology

Thank you again Fred for reminding us of a simpler time or maybe we were just nieve🤔So many amazing memories🤗

From one Sandlapper to another I absolutely love your work and videos. They bring back so many good memories.

I had totally forgotten "Green eyed lady" much as I liked it back then. Funny. 🤔 Thanks for reminding me. "A day in the life..." series is one of your best. Please, be sensible everyone and stay safe. 🙋🏽‍♀️😊

I knew I started the night right as soon as I started to watch this video and heard the music. Such great, comforting content!

We never knew how good we had it. Your friend was really something, Fred! 😂

I turned 13 in 1970. One of the best years in my life ! Thanks for the look back Fred !

Thanks for the memories, carbon copy of my youth I sure miss them days.

I just watched some of the videos of your childhood memories. I was born in 1956 and lived the exact same childhood, in Kentucky. Our experiences were so much better than how kids live today. Freedom, personal responsibility, respect and just plain old fun! And when you got in a fight, you never told an adult. If mom asked “what happened to you” the response, “fell off my bike”, “playing football”, etc.

* Don't forget: "We've Only 🎶 Just Begun" by the Carpenters

I remember 1970 especially the Fall time when I returned back to school. Here in Corpus Christi, Texas USA we were just recovering from Hurricane Celia that hit directly in August 3rd 1970. I'm glad you choose Green Eyed Lady from Sugarloaf because it's always been my favorite. In the winter of 1968 and 69 people were dying of the Hong Kong flu. It started in the Orient but the country didn't shutdown. They were quick to develop a vaccine even though I didn't get one. But things were different then and people weren't at each other's throats. Those were certainly great times and I'm glad you featured in the presentation the Flip Wilson Show. Variety Shows are none existent and the jokes were clean and harmless. But everyone certainly had a good time.

The 70s was the best era of music ever. ROCK ON.........

October 1970, you say? I was 19 and I remember another song around that time: "It Don't Matter To Me" by Bread 🍞

Fabulous memories of the 70s 🇬🇧

Back in the 70's , young, Free, and no obligations Just me, myself and I..... Same with my friends from that time.

1970, 15 yrs old having fun in Jefferson Park, South Charleston, West Virginia.

My dad taught high school history in the 1960s - the mid 1990s here in the upper midwest.... he always said that the class of 1970 was the most dynamic and promising class of them all. I was only 6 years old but i still remember the music, tv shows, cartoons & the cool fashion.

A hole in the floorboard, eh? I had a '64 Ford, 3-speed on the column. Oh no. I wanted a Hertz 3-speed shifter...in the floor. So I cut hole...in the floorboard. Yeah, maybe a bit too big...but it worked. And then I got bored with it. I mean I was only 16 years old. So I put the shifter back on the column and covered the big hole with a floor mat. And then one night some pals and I were out ridin' 'round...and drinkin' beer...no, not that 3.2 stuff for people under 21, but that good stuff, that 6.4 stuff for "grown-ups". (Yes, there were always "grown-ups" willing to help back in those days.) And a cop saw us drinking. And he pulled us over. What he never knew is that while he was walking from his car to mine, we dumped 3 six-packs out that hole in the floorboard. He let me drive to the police station while he followed, with my pals in his car. And he never knew that as we drove away, he drove right over all that beer piled up on the side of the road. And they called out parents.... THAT was the price young people used to pay. THAT was the fear! And the cops knew it. Great video as always, Fred.

I was twelve years old and life was very good.

Thank you for the time travel.I am 2 yrs. younger (just a kid) but remember so very well.Thanks Again.

I remember all of that; I was 13, an adult after all, in the eyes of the movie theaters!

When the "Soul Train" theme started playing on TV that was your queue that cartoons were over and it was time to go outside.

these are my absolute favorites Fred!

Good times that's for sure!!

Fred, Thank You for all your hard work to entertain us !

Flintstone Floor at 4:15!!! 9th grade, 14th birthday is a couple weeks away. Wonderful to take a ride back in time! Thanks for the remembery boost Fred!!! Again. And Again. And...

Hello there Fred! I LOVE the Day in the Life videos SO MUCH!!! It always bring me right back to that day and time!!! Thank you SO MUCH!!! :)

If you are old enough, chances are good that you rode around in a vehicle with rusty floorboards (and rusty everything else). If anything good can be said about the current state of the world, it is that science and technology has made progress in the fight against ferrous oxide.

Those were the days lol nice one :-)

Man Fred, you have a great memory. My teen years were a blur. I have to do the math to figure out what grade I was in back in 1970, much less recall in detail the events of a specific day. You must have a Way-Back machine in your closet... or something.

Thanks for the time machine 👍😎👍

i find my self cominf back to watch your day in the life videos they awesome

Janice Joplin was SO talented... she literally gave it all. Whenever I hear one of her songs (and of course I have CD's) the heart and soul she put into it gets into me and I love it. Gone too soon of course.. like many RIP Janice! We still love your music. Rock on..

That was awesome man. I am 62 and I live in New Zealand, I remember all those tv shows. Some I had forgotten. Nice trip down memory lane.

Thanks for the memories Fred! I had a good friend named "Hummer" who thought he was a bit smarter than the rest of us, but could be talked into doing almost anything. Talk about a recipe for fun! In 1970, at the age of fifteen we hosted a beer party while my parents were away to visit relatives in Milwaukee. We played "Mama Told Me Not TO Come" by Three Dog Night on the record player over and over. We thought every car that went past our driveway was going to be the cops. Hummer had a strong constitution so he cleaned up all the puke. What fun!

Just the photo of the 7/11 brought back a ton of happy memories. Walking to the new 7/11 in 1969 was our big thrill for the day. I must have consumed 1000 cherry/coke Slurpees! Amazed my teeth didnt rot! Im a little younger r than you but these videos are spot on with my memories. Thank you for reminding me how much different life was for us boomers growing up. We could "rebel" and not do irreparable harm to ourselves like kids today. Those WERE the DAYS my friend!

Fred you are my spirit animal! We have shared so much of the same things from different parts of the country. Keep it going my friend!

I enjoyed this one, as usual. Thanks for posting.

FredFlix. Halloween, October 1970. I was just over my 25Th Birthday and my Wife had just turned 23. And I was still a Rookie walking a beat Downtown. But these were still some wonderful times. Thank You for this video. God Bless.

I was 9 years old in 1970. I remember the "Hong Kong Flu" as it was called back then, very bad flu virus, I think my dad had it and it took a long time to get over it.

Your episodes provide me much nostalgia and warm simpler times fun.

Diamond! One of the best! Thanks Flintstone!

I was only 3 & 1/2 the summer of 70. Not sure I was aware of much other than, maybe Saturday morning cartoons. I do remember Apollo space missions and Vietnam on the television as a kid in the 70's. Christmas Toy Catalogs were amazing in the 70's.

Fred, how many years are the Bradley's now serving in prison!?

I love these videos. I was born in 77 but, can relate. Keep making more!

These have always been my favorite videos. Nice to see a new one. Plus, it's one of the few I've been able to relate to. I was 9.

Don’t forget “The Partridge Family!!!” Also movies like “Airport” and “Beneath the Planet of the Apes”.

You never fail to see the big picture, Fred. All those years of journalism and now you're world-famous. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Don't know how I missed this Fred but these are my favorite videos.... I'm going to watch this one again..... Laughed out loud

@Fred Flix At 2:51 you show RC Cola..which I just had now. LOL. Unfortunately it isn't the same as it was back in the early 70s. That used real cane sugar not odd tasting and slick mouth feeling of the HFCS they use today.

wow...i wish i had known you or were your neighborhood pal.....you sounded like you had alot of fun, went to alot of places back then....

RC and a moonpie. Who remembers putting salted peanuts in their Coca-Cola..

Thanks Fred your videos make me smile ! Wish i could go back in time and stay there! But I'm needed by my friends and extended family in the present. Keep the faith God bless you!

I remember the RC cola’s in the bottle, had a little rubber piece under the cap. When you peeled it off it revealed a prize. Usually 10 or 25 cents you could cash it in at the stores. That may have been around The mid-70s when I started doing that. But I also remember those cola bottles use to be worth good money back then.

I was born a year after this... October 7th 1971..and I was raised in South Carolina too...AND,,,wait for it...my dad's name was Fred!!! But I digress, I appreciate your Fred-flix...🌙🌴

Just awesome Fred!!!!

October of 1970. I was also 16 getting ready to turn 17 in December. I ended up selling my tickets to Derek and the Dominoes that month as my date could not go out on a school night. It was the last chance that I would get to see Duane Allman play. I ended up going to see the Moody Blues that December with the same girl. What an evening. Thank you for sharing your memories. Have a great Monday. God bless from SoCal.

Thank you so much for sharing that with us. I so wish we could all go back In time and become stuck in a place we’re AMERICA was still AMERICA.

I just LOVE this guy. Im about to binge on all his videos. takes me back

I didnt get notified! I seem to have a sixth sense when its been too long since ive seen Fred and have to search! Lol! I really enjoyed that one as we are getting into my timeline! Even tho i was only 8 mos old in Oct. 1970 i still know the t.v. shows you watched and the candy you ate! Lol! You make me happy Fred! Thank u! Thank u

I remember Eskimo Pies. They are changing the name now because of all this PC crap.

I was 5 weeks old. Man, those were the days.

I was ten at the time. We did the same things, camping out at a friend's farm. Movies, even homemade stilts. Wow. I love your vids, the memories they bring back!

I was 13 and still trick-or-treating with my 9 year old sister on October 31, 1970. I lived in a very small town in southwest Louisiana. We got a lot of candy, gum, cookies, money, popcorn, and fried apple pies. That was in the dinosaur days when you could trust your neighbors not to mess with the treats. I don't really remember much else of that particular day. I enjoyed the trip in your Way Back Machine. Thanks.

That was the Halloween that a friend of mine went trick or treating only wearing roller skates, otherwise totally nude, and said, "Trick or Treat - I'm a pull toy!" when asked what he was dressed up as.

Loved this, even though I was only one in 1970 😆 Did the Bradley Brothers end up in prison? Lol

Great memories. Thank you for your videos my favorite channel.

Your videos are getting Much better. I just began a 70s retro for the rest of this decade. (0n this date 50 years ago).

I turned 14 on my September birthday in 1970. I would walk to 7-11 and buy a Slurpee and a Tiger Beat magazine. Saturday, I would go shopping with my mom to Alpha Beta or Market Basket supermarket. My parents and I lived in Pomona, California, and this time of year we had the Pomona County fair going on for six wonderful weeks. Each year, we would get a free student ticket and discount tickets for my parents. Thanks for the memories.

Green Eyed Lady what a great song... I was yet to be born. But many times I have told my Dad I would have liked to have been born in the late 40's as he was. I would have liked to have seen the 60's. Although I would have more than likely went to 'Nam... Cracklin Rosie another great song. Good job. I enjoy your Pick a Chick vid's as well.

What a time you had in your youth. I was a mere lad of 4 & yet I didn't know there was a flu epidemic back then. Thanks for the memories, FredFlix. 🎡

1970, I don't remember Halloween that year. I think my father had bought a Volkswagen and something happened and they took it back to the dealership. The reason we didn't go trick or treating that year was because my hot temoered father, who was bipolar went to every barroom and low life dumps thing his car had been "stolen" but in reality the thing was repo'd and taken back to where he bought it. I was seven that year, my sister, was four. Our Halloween was ruined that year.

Thanks, Fred. This is just what I needed. These are certainly my absolute favorites. Mom died...could not come home from Ireland to U.S. Too risky. Hope you are well. I would move to N.C. in a heartbeat, but cannot take the heat anymore. Much love.❤

Interesting video. I graduated from high school in 1970.

I went trick or treating that night but I don't remember it. Thanks Fred.

Hard to believe that was 50 years ago

Thanks for the memories

I loved the video. I was 6 at the time, barely able to leave the court we lived on, let alone, walk to the 7-11, although, that would come in 3 more years, or so. I loved saturday mornings with the plethora of shows on the 3 or 4 channels. Wow, now I have cable and I can't find anything to watch, except to binge watch and Columbo, 70's version.

1970 was a great year for me. I was 18 years old, had a new car, great school, (I was still in high school, I had failed screw years), full time job, plenty of money, well groomed and popular. This lasted exactly one year...then vietnam...

I swear that 7-11 looks like the one on Wappoo Rd. In those days. "Also"!... I remember those shows at the C.C.F. and to this day remember my sister attempting to cover my eyes with her hand. Great stuff!

I was twelve years old in 1970-Fred,once again you've given us baby boomers something to sink our teeth into.

Another great vid Fredflix

Joplin's first name was actually spelled 'Janis', not 'Janice'. (at 1:52). Oct. 4, only 27. Her death was ruled accidental overdose, given more potent heroin than thought, compounded by alcohol.

In case I didn't already mention it, I love your soundtracks.

Hey Fred Man! I Was Only 12 In October Of '70 But I Still Can Relate So Well. I Had The 45 Of Green-Eyed Lady. Remember Ride Captain Ride By Blues Image? Let's Not Forget CSN&Y Four Dead In Ohio. If You're Not A Documentary Filmmaker, You Should Be! Thanks For Reminding Us That Some Memories Never Fade . . .