I was 13 years old in 1976...Those were the best years of my life and while it wasn't perfect by any sense of the imagination, America was 1000 percent better in 1976 than today.

The mood of the country certainly has changed since 1976.

I was in elementary school in 1976, and everything was Bicentennial, including Bass-O-Matic ‘76 . . . Mmm! That’s great tasting bass!

My God, I remember this like it was a week ago--I was 15 then, now I'm er...older! Thank you Fred! Happy Fourth my 76 friend, great show! 👍 😊

The times were wholesome way way back into those years

Thank you!!!...... It's amazing/ horrible how far our once great country has deteriorated!!!

I was 10 and 11 in ‘76: living just outside of D.C. What a great time to be a kid!

Thank you Fred; And thank you 1976 America.

Those Kodak commercials always got me right in the feels. Still do. “🎶Good morning yesterday, you wake up and time has slipped away…remember the times of your life.🎶”🥹

God bless the United States of America - thanks for the memories from my youth. Bad News Bears rocked!

I can remember all of this like yesterday I was 11 .

Keep it up!!!! Like a time machine!

These videos bring back memories of my childhood, like a hot July day.

The Sears Stores were such a good influence on the 70's culture and now it's all but gone

Truly great times!

Marched in a parade through our town on 7/4/76. Glorious times. Obsession is one of my favorite De Palma films. Thanks, Fred. God Bless America

I graduated in '76, absolutely the best time

Morning in July, 1976. "The Great American Birthday Party" is on TV in the living room and burgers are on the grill in the front yard. I'm a bright-eyed and red-blooded American young man, and to serve my country is still the highest honor I can think of. Things like "being President." Not because I want to change America, but because I love America and want to uphold her ideals. I'm sure my dad doesn't feel the same way though. I'm sure my dad isn't a fan of trippy psychedelic 4th of July promos. But from where I stand as a young man, we live in a time of great pride in American tradition.

I was 9 and I remember all this!! What a month!!

Fred, thank you for momentarily taking me back to the best time of my life.

We buried a Bicentennial time capsule at my school in 1976 and opened it in 2001. There was "Happy Days" and "Welcome Back Kotter" memorabilia among other items.

The ABC Monday Night Movie featured looks like a precursor to Robocop that would come out 11 years later - I was 5 in 1976 and vaguely remember celebrating the Bicentennial going to an outdoor drive in theater with my family with snacks and watching fireworks

You had to live during these times to realize how bad things are now. All the family and friends who are deceased now, were all alive back then.

If I could return to any year of my life 1976 is that year.

Watching that Bingo Long movie in a drive in theatre in '76 was like being a King. The following year we got Petes Dragon. Oh yeah.

Happy 4th of July Fred!! 😊😊😊😊

Thanks Fred for these 2 Bicentennial videos. Our house was in a Bicentennial Parade of Homes that year. My mother had purchased a home that was built in the late 1800s and refurbished the inside with antiques from the late 1700s, 1800s & early 1900s. It was pretty cool being a part of history.

I don't remember what I was doing on the 4th in '76, but I became a high school graduate that year. Happy 4th of July, Fred!😊

My grandma (1900-1981) always thought Will Rogers Jr. was ripping off his dad's name. Every time he appeared in commercials (which was a lot when I was 10 or 12), she'd say "Oh, shut up!" I mutter the same phrase often in tribute.

Being English I had to portray King George 111 in the Bicentennial play at Dubai Petroleum COmpany American Community School . . . I was stereotyped!!!

Thank you Fred, Awesome 😎NO Big Pharma commercials 😂

I was 3 back in 1976. It seemed like people in general were happier then.

I watched part 2 first because this one didn't pop up in my queue. Both excellent. Wow, that concert add! BOC and Rush! Holy moly, I wish I'd seen that show!

I was 8yrs old!! Long time ago!! So many memories.

Thanks, Fred. Brings back memories, for sure.

1976! Everyone smoked… I mean, everyone! Yeah honey, you can flick my Bic!

FredFlix, thank you for so much for showing, African-American album covers and magazine cover, of memories

Great nostalgia trip, Fred.

Fantastic compilation of the high points and memories of that year. I had just graduated from high school. The world was a different place then.

Great post! Thank you for the cultural history. ☮️

I can remember when the catchphrase "flicking your Bic" became a popular expression! Even JJ on Good Times said it once! Haha! Dan Rather is still with us at the amazing age of 92 as of today!

I remember this July 1976 I was 13 and I would be 14 that year. We, my parents and I just came back from having gone up to Alaska for the 2nd time. So many memories it does make me snicker about these ads. Thank you

Who else got contact lenses when they first came out in the 70's? They weren't the soft lenses they have today that work so well. No, these were hard lenses that sometimes were a real pain in the butt. Also note one of the key selling points on the Dodge Colt was the "locking gas" lid. Yes, people stealing gas from your car was a big problem.

Find it ironic that in 1976 the most American of years that the Olympics were held in Canada (Montreal) That ABC Sunday/Monday night theme brings back so many memories BTW the song I'm Easy is from the movie Nashville released the year before and had recently won the Oscar. However the single may have been released in July 76. Either way, it;s a great song.

Fantastic job, Fred! I was 19, and what a wonderful year 1976 was!

I was born that year 1976 bicentennial birth certificate im 48 now. I have that magazine that has man on the moon on the front cover. I collect old vintage magazines for years.

Dont go Breaking my Heart! Nothing like AM top 40 back then. I can remember riding in my parents car and waiting to hear the latest hits.

I missed all of this because I was at Parris Island in bootcamp. Graduated on July 19 so all of the celebrations were over. Hard to believe how much time has passed

I hope everyone has a fantastic Independence Day !

I was 17 in July of 1976. I turned 18 in August. This was the summer between my 11th grade and 12th grade high school experience. I graduated from high school in June of 1977. Hard to believe that that was almost 50 years ago now

I love this video, Fred! Thanks for posting!

Another great trip, thanks Fred. Happy Independence Day everyone. 🫡🇺🇸

I spent the week as a 14 year old on the beaches of Florida and a trip to Disney world !

HAPPY 4th, Fred and folks! I was 12, living in Atlanta in 76.

I was 10 years old, and I remember my mother going to the disco and leaving me and my two brothers at home. I would beg my brothers to stay awake until our mother came( usually 2am). we watched the honeymooners, but they always fell asleep, I was scared waiting for my mom to return 😢.

Thanks Fred 👍

Great!!! Can’t wait to dive into part 2!

We are approaching the Sestercentennial (250 years). It would be nice if Americans could put aside their petty differences and show the kind of Patriotism we had back 1976. I remember the Tall Ships in the Hudson, the Fireworks ... I agree with the other comments. It wasn't a perfect time in our history... but I would go back in a heartbeat and leave today's insanity behind.

Great video Fred. Happy 4th of July!🇺🇸

❤❤❤❤ this Happy 4th of July to you and your family and everyone thank you Fred

Fantastic! Happy Independence Day Fred!

The United States turned 200 back in July of 1976. I merely turned 10 a month before. 🧒

My favorite memory of the bicentennial was....and remember it was almost 50 years ago so this was TOTALLY new....Baskin Robbins had vanilla ice cream with red white and blue candies in it! I was sooo impressed and got it every trip all summer! Not long after my favorite became daiquiri ice but for the summer of 76' I must have had 30 red white and blue cones as sadly twas gone by Summer's end!!!😂😂😂

I was down on the Hatch Shell on the Esplanade that 4th of July weekend. At 19 I wanted to take it all in. Tall ships, the whole bit. I remember it being a particularly hot summer in Boston that year.

Thank you very much

Thank you very much😊

I Love All the Commercials, but my Favorite one is the Optical Department at Sears Commercial. Small thing, Big Impact.👍🏾

It's 2024 and we're now closer to America's tricentennial then we are to the bicentennial year.😮

Yes those were the good old days growing up I was 11 years old and I remember everything thing was bicentennial red white and blue some one even painted a fire highdrant those colors

We can only hope the Semiquincentennial will be so grand. With 2026 being a Winter Olympics year, we need Dorothy Hamill to come back and help us kick the year off right.

Ahh… Fred is back with another video. Thank you so much for putting these out there. Can you do my favorite summer? (1972)

oh yeah man. even as a young lad i remember the pride we all felt back then. i also noticed two references of will rogers, though the first one was second hand through his son whom i had totally forgotten about. he sounded and looked like his old man. thanks again sir. now for part two.

The month after I graduated high school. Even my friends and I who were too cool for everything fell under the Bicentennial spell. It was a fun event and distracted us from the unknowns we would face at the end of that summer. David Brinkley truly was the dullest man on the planet back then, wasn’t he? He should have been the spokesperson for sleep aids like Sominex.

Bingo Long really was a good movie.

Fred - this is the BEST!!!!!!!!

8:16 Bic lighter commercials. Yesterday at the grocery store, I had to get in line at customer service to buy lighters. *Man* do I miss the 70s. Great stuff as always, Fred.

I can recall vividly with fondness -Kiss Spirit of '76 Tour poster on my wall, Bicentennial logo shirt and stickers, excited about the Summer Olympics, the MLB National League Centennial Baseball season, Pittsburgh Pirates and others wearing "pillbox hats", The All Star Game in Philadelphia. Mark "The Bird" Fydrich for the American League vs Randy Jones and the NL stars, as well as cool songs on the radio. Playing outside..... Beautiful

I was just about to hit my teens in 76,oh i wish i could turn back time...

thanks...

I was 14 then.

OMG! I had that when it came out!

Happy fourth Fred! Try to come back on the fifth with your limbs intact, okay?

what a scene.... him playing that song in the movie Nashville.... 😢

I was 16. Had my drivers license and long hair and none of it was gray like it is now.

was a 16 yo dishwasher in a restaurant. Learned how to mop floors correctly. Got my drivers license. Drove like a jerk sometimes. and they "Flicked your Bic inside an airplane"?! Yep!

Wow!! I thought the song (I'm Easy) @ 11:24 sounded like Keith Carradine. Turns out it is (I didn't remember him singing). It's from the 1975 film Nashville.

Happy Fourth off July Fred.

Master of his domaine @fredflix another classic double header

I miss David Brinkley

Well, now I want to watch the ABC Monday Night Movie, "The Future Cop"...

What can I say 😊 those were the days ❤ fifteen years old and knew it all😮 or at least we thought we did 😅

I remember that year. I was a teenager and didn’t understand why the bicentennial was so major when the soldiers returning from Vietnam were being treated like child rapists.

🙂💯💫👍Happy Birthday!🤍

I was born ten days later...

The video overall is very nice. However, Squirm is proof positive not everything about the 70's was great.

In July 1976 I was 14 and my boyfriend was 19 and he had an opal

I'd forgotten about "I'm Easy" by Keith Carradine. It might have been a hit but I'm glad Keith stuck to acting because that song just didn't resonate with testosterone filled teenage boys, and don't think I could have taken anymore. It was bad enough we had James Taylor, but this was piling on!

Vinnie Barbarino...he was ok on 'Welcome back Kotter' cuz of his suupporting cast. But 'Grease' and disco IMHO did him in! Just my opinion....

I was 10, I loved Elton John and Bruce Jenner. 😮

Happy 4th of July everyone 🗽🇺🇸 thx Fredflix 76 remember it well 😀 🎉