Growing up in the 70s
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Good stuff! I had most of those toys mentioned.
I'm often amazed that I somehow managed to survive that decade...But, I pulled it off somehow?
I'm often amazed that I somehow managed to survive that decade...But, I pulled it off somehow?
PinnedAndRecessed
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This guy musta grown up in that era.
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I miss the 70's, before all the hippies and flower children became Marxist politicians.
p345Fan
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I was born in 1969. So yeah I remember all of that. Especially the cars. My dad worked for a GM dealership and we had a new demo every few months. Muscle cars, trucks, suburban, Blazers. It was a great time.
As a 50's kid my take is that by the 70's things were getting pretty mild.
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Of course.
Everyone thinks that the period in which they grew up in is the greatest evah!!!
Well, wasn't it?!! I'm 72 years young and still growing up! The toys have just changed!
jg123
Single-Sixer
LOL-gas embargo was cool.....
DGW1949
Hawkeye
I was a '49 model, grew up in the 50's-60's, graduated High School in '67....I can tell you for sure that by the 70's, cars were headed downhill as-was society in general. Heck, back in the 50's-mid 60's most of today's federal agencies didn't even exist....And we still had real money too. I can remember going down to the steel mill with my Dad on payday and watching from the car as he stood in line at the pay window. What he got was real money in a pay envelope. "Real" meaning that the currency was Silver Certificates and the change was 90% silver....No checks, no direct deposits, no electronic mumbo-jumbo. I got my first job at 15 and it was the same for me. A cart full of groceries could be bought for $20, serious crime was rare, no one was afraid of much of anything, there was no GCA-68, phones still plugged into the wall, everyone went to church on Sunday, and we all had more freedom than any generation ever will again......It seems that all of that got left out of the video, so I thought that I'd throw it in.....No extra charge..LOL.
DGW
DGW
ex13F
Single-Sixer
When it comes to the late 60s and the 70s, I plead the 5th.
I was born in the late 40s, so the 60s were the best times. Walking down to the Bayou to go swimming or catching fish, At nighttime, we would go gar gigging. You could fill a 59 Chevy up with gas and still take your girlfriend to the movies for less than five bucks. Used to earn money cutting grass and I didn’t feel one bit sorry for not giving anything to the government.
Busterswoodshop
Hunter
I have heard it said that.
If you can remember the 60's and 70's , you didn't do it right.
If you can remember the 60's and 70's , you didn't do it right.
coachk64
Single-Sixer
Born in 64 so was a kid and young teenager through the '70's. Remember them fondly, and either I or my friends in the neighborhood had most of the toys shown. Was a big Evel Knievel fan and got a lot of air under my bike tires. Road rash was a fashion statement back then. the Moto-Cross riders of the '80's and '90's had nothing on us, those sissies with their helmets and pads.
Paul B
Hunter
Guess I cheated a bit. Born in 1938 I grew up in the 40s and 50s. We played in the street literally come rain or come shine. Of course if it rained too hard we either went inside our house or the house o a friend. Mothers hated rainy days and San Francisco had some seriously rainy days. No drought back then. For my social group we had an old chicken coop that had been cleaned up and made into a club house. Street games were things like dodge ball, tag, one foot off the gutter and an interesting one where you hit a diamond shaped piece of wood about two inches thick and about 4 inches long. The trick was to hit it just right so it would hop in the air, then swat it toward a set goal. Get 4 or 5 kids in each team and it was first class mayhem. Today, such a game would never be allowed by our nanny state and frankly, it was some kind of miracle no one ever got seriously hurt.
For those who do not know, google up a map of Golden gate Park. Note the length and width of the main body and don't ignore the panhandle which looks like tail. That whole park from 6 years old on was my and my friends playground. We rode our bikes all over hell and gone including those steep hill you saw the cable cars on. O course by the mid 1950s boy and girls of our era began to notice each other and some activities quieted down while others gained acceptance. Except for the period ending in 1945 meaning the end of WW2, I think we kids had the freest time of all growing up. We played like there was no tomorrow and because we lived about a mile from the ocean beach, we were always thinking what if the Japanese were to invade? I guess no time period is really perfect but I think my generation came close.
Paul B.
For those who do not know, google up a map of Golden gate Park. Note the length and width of the main body and don't ignore the panhandle which looks like tail. That whole park from 6 years old on was my and my friends playground. We rode our bikes all over hell and gone including those steep hill you saw the cable cars on. O course by the mid 1950s boy and girls of our era began to notice each other and some activities quieted down while others gained acceptance. Except for the period ending in 1945 meaning the end of WW2, I think we kids had the freest time of all growing up. We played like there was no tomorrow and because we lived about a mile from the ocean beach, we were always thinking what if the Japanese were to invade? I guess no time period is really perfect but I think my generation came close.
Paul B.
p345Fan
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Well, I was just a kid, so I wouldn’t have been using the drugs/alcohol.
I remember San Francisco in the 60s. Haight-Asbury and the Golden Gate Park as well. A couple of shipmates and I would go down to the car dealers on a weekend pass and drive as many cars as we could. They pretty lenient seeing as they made pretty good business selling to the gullible young sailors.
GasGuzzler
Hawkeye
I wore the center out of the front wheel on my big wheel and stripped the hub all from burnouts! Next door girl had a Green Machine.
Remember "Yard Darts" from the 70's. Holy sh*t it's a miracle more kids weren't mained or crippled from those things.
These and BB gun fights!
Heck our my dad just turned me loose in the garage with all sorts of dangerous and deadly tools. I guess he figured I would figure out how to use them without maiming myself. Seems to have worked out okay. Of course today a kid would need every form of personnel protection and the parents would still be convicted of child endangerment.
That was also the 'nickname' of the Blackhawk helicopter when it first was flying. There was a problem with the stabilator when flying around electronic emissions that caused the aircraft to nose over into a uncontrolled dive.
How dare you put that life threating killer toy on this video.
No BB gun fights, but pinecone fights. Thos tight pinecones before they opened up with the little sines on them. Hurt.
Same here, a '49 model, graduated high school in '67, first job at 15 working for a full service gas station/corner store. Fixed a lot of flat tires and pumped a lot of gas at $.28 a gallon.
I remember gas wars. Long gone.
Star43
Hunter
I loved Jarts !! The greatest back yard game ever !! If you won, that was great. If you lost you would throw the Jart at your buddy !!! Just kidding... Ah, those were the days.
Always wondered if anyone was ever actually seriously injured by a Lawn Dart. 
BB gun wars- spent many an afternoon engaged in that activity. And around the 4th we had bottle rocket wars! Light ‘em up and throw them at each other. So much fun.
Born in 60. Great cartoons and TV. Original looney toons, Little Rascals, 3 Stooges…Speed Racer, GI Joe, as I got older Wild Wild West, Kung Fu, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, all the westerns plus Bond, Our Man Flint, Get Smart, I could go on forever.
Putting pennies on RR tracks, original Slurpees, building models, Erector sets, Lincoln Logs, doing stupid stuff on your bike, trash picking (found a couple guns even as a kid!)
Getting older- all about cruising, doing smoky burnouts everywhere, loud music, hanging at the mall, picking up chicks…girls with big hair wearing short shorts…
Back then we knew everyone by the car they drove. “Hey, do you know Dennis?” “Does he drive that bitchin’ Camaro with the hood scoop?” “Yeah, that’s him!”
Work was for paying for hot rod parts and back tires, and if there was anything left we splurged for a sit down dinner on a date.
I truly feel that growing up when I did was the best ever. We had stuff the generations prior to us only dreamed about, and did things that the generations after us wouldn’t dare do. We did feel like we owned the world. I truly feel sorry for generations after us.
Born in 60. Great cartoons and TV. Original looney toons, Little Rascals, 3 Stooges…Speed Racer, GI Joe, as I got older Wild Wild West, Kung Fu, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, all the westerns plus Bond, Our Man Flint, Get Smart, I could go on forever.
Putting pennies on RR tracks, original Slurpees, building models, Erector sets, Lincoln Logs, doing stupid stuff on your bike, trash picking (found a couple guns even as a kid!)
Getting older- all about cruising, doing smoky burnouts everywhere, loud music, hanging at the mall, picking up chicks…girls with big hair wearing short shorts…
Back then we knew everyone by the car they drove. “Hey, do you know Dennis?” “Does he drive that bitchin’ Camaro with the hood scoop?” “Yeah, that’s him!”
Work was for paying for hot rod parts and back tires, and if there was anything left we splurged for a sit down dinner on a date.
I truly feel that growing up when I did was the best ever. We had stuff the generations prior to us only dreamed about, and did things that the generations after us wouldn’t dare do. We did feel like we owned the world. I truly feel sorry for generations after us.
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