These kids would be 60 years old now

My Mom was a bus driver for many, many years…beginning in the early 70s. I remember her carrying me across ditches when it flooded, and watching her put chains on her tires in the Winter. We never missed school. I miss my Mom so much, and I miss these days of yesteryear. ♥️

The sound of that International school bus with Allison automatic transmission going through the gears sweet music to my ears

You know it's 1978 when new home construction is a split level.

Man! Days when everyone looked cool. Even the bus driver looked cool.

Something I never would have thought I'd see. It's a completely normal, everyday experience just from a different era. Thanks for sharing.

Remember no backpacks! Cover your books with grocery bag book covers and try not to drop them…. Too much.

I love the way these videos are pieces of ordinary days, completely lost in the ocean of time.

Hearing that Allison automatic go through the gears takes me right back to the 7th grade, 1977.

Seeing this on videotape gives it much more immediacy, if that makes sense. It feels more real (and more modern) than had this been on a film reel. I was in Kindergarten in '86 and rode the bus daily. So this era feels very familiar!

I love the way the motor hummed in all these all international school buses 😅

For some odd reason, I always liked picking the old school buses when I was in elementary school growing up in the mid to late 90s. We still had a couple of the old square grilled Chevrolet B Series buses that were about to be phased out to make way for the newer Freightliner buses. I remember one of the Chevrolet buses had a manual transmission and a V8. I liked riding that one bus. No air conditioning as well.

Better days.

It is nice to go back in time and see school children riding on a bus. I took a school bus every day to school from 1976-1980. Takes me back in time.

When I rode the school bus and we passed by road construction crews, one kid would always yell out the window "Off the road, you fools!" cracking us all up. I now realize how dumb that was. 😬

This is the year I was born. I'm 44 now.😂

@2:35 I Love how the rear-ends of Bluebird Buses have stayed virtually the same since the 70’s. A prime example of don’t fix what ain’t broken!

Like Samantha on "Sixteen Candles" said, "I LOATHE the bus"😂

Yes!! ❤ The 70’s how I truly miss that decade! Love the cars from back then at 4:46 Love that Lincoln Town car👍!

You rock bro!! Love these time machine videos... Such simpler times.. And I wasn't even born until 91

Born and raised here on Kaua'i in '63 this would have been us. My uncle was our bus driver and he would stop at a old mom and pop store and buy me and my three siblings ice cream on our way home! And he reserved the two front seats for us! He was a huge Hawaiian Man and nobody messed with him! Lol! Great Memories!

Awe the smell of napalm in the morning

The bus driver is probably 75-80 now.

Brings back the memories of riding the bus everyday in the late 80s!

These old vehicles here on road from then bring back memories of 1978 for me to as well while in preschool then.

I remember riding school buses just like this. God this brings back so many memories. Those buses were in the fleet until 1996, when real money started flowing into Mason City Schools, and they bought all new buses.

I was born in 80. This part: 3:12 "You cant fit 3 on a seat." Reminds me of when I was in middle school in the 90s. You couldn't fit 3 in, but my bus made us since there were so many kids on the route home. Practically falling off the seat if you were unlucky to get the edge.

What A Splendid Year 1978 Was...Splendid Memories...

I remember those days, walking about 1/4 mile to get to the bus stop, where we all waited, usually we had about 15 minutes to screw around, but there were also times when the bus came early. Once or twice the bus never came at all, which really messed things up, so we would walk to school. As I got older, I learned about skipping school, so the bus that didn't show up meant I had a chance to walk home and stay there, luckily no one was home during the day.

Born a year before this video in 77 ❤please bring back the 70’s 😊❤

I remember, school kids in the 80s-90s would still have those buses in service. No seat belts was common.

Rode the bus in the early 80's all through junior high and at the start of high school. And every ride was a fresh new Hell. And watching this video genuinely made my skin crawl. But thank you for the nostalgia! Cheers!

Even when i was in high school from 2004-2008 we never dressed like nice except for picture day.

As somebody who records these types of videos today, thank you! This is really awesome to see!

I was in kindergarten in the 1977-78 school year. I didn't take the bus. I walked to school with the other kids from my neighborhood. In 1st grade, i remember walking home from school alone sometimes. Today a 1st grader would never walk home alone

Nice to see clear archived footage of what school buses used to look like way back.

It's like the yearbooks came alive! Lol.

This is so cool to see. The last time I rode a school bus was for the 1973-74 school year, 5th grade. But this is close enough. Back from the days when school buses had gas engines and stick shift. My best friend's mother was a school bus driver in another town in those days. But later in life the shifting and steering aggravated her bursitis and she had to quit. Anyway, I loved seeing the old cars on the road, like the air-cooled VWs, also the way kids dressed in those days. Cool stuff. Thanks for the upload.

This is fascinating because I was born in December of that year. Love all your videos! Thanks for posting.

Brings back frightening memories of the kids in the back chanting, “wedgy, wedgy, wedgy” 🥹

I was 5 years old this year and absolutely terrified to get on the bus. LOL. I didn't have a choice, though. Good times.

1978 was my last year to ride the bus; Senior Ike Gatwood was our driver. He looked like Wooderson out of DAZED AND CONFUSED. On my route a block from the school, the driver would go straight through the intersection and I would be home in about 45 minutes because I lived at the end of the route. But if he turned right and ran route in reverse, I’d be home in 5 minutes……and that meant I was home in time for Uncle Zeb’s Cartoon Camp, a locally produced live kids show in Tulsa. Every day Ike would pull up to that intersection and make us scream to decide which way he would choose. He seemed to revel in his power over us…..and every time he chose to go straight, he would look at me in that oversized rear view mirror and have a sinister grin on his face….knowing the pain he was causing me.🤣 Do kids even take sack lunches anymore?

I was 16 here... now I qualify for social security in 2 months. 😮

I rode on one of those Internationals in 1978 then I drove one when I hit 16-1/2 in 1985.

Love this..I started kindergarten that year.

So cool to see. I was only one years old in 78 but still enjoyed seeing this.

I remember how utterly shakey old buses were

Wow, it's so nice to look back at these times. I was in kindergarten that year.

Wasn’t that different than riding the bus in ‘98. IDK about nowadays I guess it’s probably the same.

First of all, let me just say that I missed you uploading! I hope there are more coming soon! I understand that everybody has a life outside of work, so it is not a rush at all, I’m just saying, I miss your videos that’s all. And the next thing is that I was going to ride the bus but I got open enrolled in my middle school so I couldn’t but it would’ve been so fun I think.

That must be a fairly new bus. I started school in 77 and the school bus we rode in was manual transmission with the low back seats. They were putting in sewer systems in my neighborhood and the roads were all dug up. I chipped my front tooth on the low back seat with metal molding. Once the new busses with the high back seats became popular you could hide from the bus driver because he couldn't see you in that mirror as easy with the higher seats. lol !

Love this! Brings back memories of toddler hood in Connecticut back in 1978 when riding a school bus there in preschool to and from school. The dark green seats with the white siding: I remember that as well during my preschool toddler days as well.

I was always the kid getting into trouble with the bowl hair cut and bell bottom jeans you saw sitting on the step as soon as the bi-fold doors opened…

Here before Boomers and Zoomers start complaining about each other.

Listen to that Allison transmission whine

That AT-545 transmission sounds so good. The engine too.

Watching this, that bus smell from 1978 came back...crazy.

Those kids look about my age back in 1978. I was 12 years old.

The sound and bumpy ride totally bring back the memories 😅

Looks just like today only the Kiddo's are not Armed and considered Dangerous like now. Love the tilt nose International Loadstar bus.Sounds just like I remember those old V8's.

Always love your uploads!

Our high school coaches drove our buses. Best not let them see you acting up!!

Bounce bounce, bus drivah, bounce bounce!

Great video. I must say the style on busses hasn’t really changed allot correct me if I’m wrong. Maybe new busses don’t bounce around like the older busses did. Only thing different now that I think of it when I graduated in 04 they started putting air conditioners in busses.

Thank you for putting up these time capsule videos. I rode the bus during this time,first grade,. My childhood was so happy, I didn't want to grow up,honestly.

At the end I sense a certain level of toughest with these kids you just don't see much today.

love that authentic whine of the Allison AT-545 Automatic Transmission . i drive a 1980 ford B-700 schoolbus with gas engine and same transmission

These are amazing videos. Thank you

The good ole days!

This must be in a nice area. We moved to a metro area but we all survived. Nice video.

I love how well-behaved the kids in the bus are. No rowdy kids screaming and shouting at each other, no hardcore gangster rap music blaring from kids' iPhones, nobody fighting or swearing at each other or at the bus driver.

Wonderful footage

Man, the times going to school at this time, even with the worry of cold war fallout

Dang everyone rode the bus back in the day.

Thank you so much for posting these videos! You have a great channel.

I used to drive a 1979 International Wayne, but it was 15 years old at the time. Cool to see what it would have looked like new. And I forgot how quiet those old gas buses were when stopped. Almost can't hear the engine running.

I love your channel!

3:11 Lol, I remember bus drivers always telling us, '3 in a seat.' It never worked.

Seeing old style homes actually being built like new is a trip! I wish I could find these streets on google maps

Thanks for the ride 👍

Watching all these videos makes me wonder how all these kids turned out …..

1978 was the first year I got to ride the bus like a "big kid". It didn't work out so well so they made me ride the "short bus". I got in a fight in that so they made my ride in the station wagon, BY MYSELF! Later in life a became a mechanic who worked on school buses (among other things). Ah, the memories of gasoline engines (leaded of course) spinning at 3500 rpms or better getting about 2 miles a gallon, the driver grinding EVERY gear, and the park brake consisting of nothing but a handle, cable, and a small drum at the back of the transmission. Hope the cable was adjusted tight enough!

Wow this is really good quality for 1978. Thanks for uploading this!

I enjoyed the video. Those were the good old days we all miss.😎

Ah those squeaks & window rattles took me right back to my days riding in those buses. In NY I rode a schoolbus in the 90s that had a registraion sticker saying it was a 1968 bluebird.

This is beautifully restored and looks like it was recorded the other day, wow. Much of what's in this video doesn't look too different from the way things look now. Same 'ol roads, stoplights, and clunky oil-addicted cars. (I was six when I started riding the bus in '79. These kids would've looked huge to me.) I thought 2023 would look less like this and more like The Jetsons, ya know?

I was 10 back then. All of our drivers were HS seniors. What I remember was fighting for seats, the smell of new school supplies and kids I hated to see get on the bus.

I remember riding the school bus, 1978-1991. Some time in the early to mid 1980's my school bus driver pulled over one day and stopped the bus. He got off the bus with some twine, and when he got back on he had a large snapping turtle with him. He'd use the twine to tie its mouth shut and legs together so it couldn't move around. I'm an animal lover, so I fear what he did with it when he got home, but that was a unique experience riding the bus :)

Awesome footage! I remember riding a Wayne bus myself, others I remember were Carpenter, Blue Bird, and Ward.

It’s the sound of those old internationals back in the day with that Allison automatic transmission “whine” great piece of nostalgia! We had many international Wayne body loadstars 1700 back in the day in our town.

I rode buses in the early 1970s. We got a new automatic transmission bus with flat black hood. It was a dream to ride in compared to the old gear jammer with 2 speed rear axle.

Wow! Kids surely don't dress up for school like this anymore. All the girls are fully clothed while all the guys are collared up.

Aww I can still remember the smell of those old school buses!

The oldest buses I remember riding on in the late 1990's were Mercedes Benz buses built in 1977-78. Here in Australia we just have normal buses not specific to school use, they do route work as well, but the older ones get the lion's share of school bus work.Currently the oldest buses running in my area date back to 2005 and are being replaced at the moment.

Excellent quality, makes it feel like it was shot in the 2000s

I rode on a bus very similar to this one

This'll get hundreds of thousands of views soon, just mark my words haha. Nostalgic things always hit the spot for many people :)

I really dig the bus driver’s shirt!

I did took the school bus when I was in preschool through high school. That was 1974-1988. I was 4 years old to get on one bus to another bus for preschool. The bus was a small one even got into a bus that was a van size. I was in preschool when I was 5 years old for another year. I was in special education when I was in the 1st grade through high school. I have a little bit of a learning disability. I’m very normal person and I’m a little bit slower than other kids in my neighborhood. I even kept trying to make friends at 6 years old. I did had a tough time in growing up.

This channel is AMAZING. I'm so happy and sad at the same time watching all these. 70s childhood, 80s adolescence, 90s young adulthood. everything sucks now. I try to just pretend it's still those times. (you should see my house! LOL)