British Couple Reacts to If you grew up in the 1970s...you remember this - Life in America

British Couple Reacts to If you grew up in the 1970s...you remember this - Life in America

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[missratner]

You should definitely watch some Schoolhouse Rock videos, especially since you are expecting. The history is American, but the math, grammar, science and some of the social studies are applicable to any kid. The tunes are smart and catchy, and the 70’s animation is highly amusing.

[travish]

“My mom was born in the 70s.” That one stung a little 😂

[animalbob]

I grew up in the 70's ! Those were great years!! We always played outside with friends until sundown!!!

[Joe_Okey]

I was born in November of 1967, so my childhood years were the Seventies and my teen years were the Eighties. This kind of video brings a lot of nostalgia.

[runrafarunthebestintheworld]

School house rock still gets shown to kids in school in the present day. It made English and History fun. Abc just did a school house rock special too.

[timlenard]

I can honestly remember EVERY detail of seeing Star Wars in the theater in 1977. As a 10 year old boy, it totally changed my life... but I'd have to say that the 80's were my most influential times, being that I was 13-23 during that decade...

[kenziedayne]

In my family tube socks and a bowl haircut weren't things we kids asked for. Parents decided for us based simply on what they could afford and what was available. We didn't have a say in it. You did as you were told back then and didn't talk back. If you didn't like something...tough.

[cliff]

I was born in 1963 and grew up in the70s and it was the best time to be alive! I played outside until it was dark. I can honestly say I would not wanted to grow up in a different time.

[lorigrimaldi]

I was a teenager in the 70's. I turned 20 in 1977. It was a great decade to come of age. I had clackers and a mood ring. I also had a Vietnam POW/MIA bracelet. We didn't have shag carpet, but we did have paneling in almost every room. I remember playing pong at my now husband's brother's house. We also played with metal lawn darts. I was already 13 in 1970, so I brown bagged it instead of using a lunch box. Loved listening to vinyl record albums and cassette tapes. This video is my whole teenage experience. Thanks for posting it

[plother]

I had clackers. They were fun. I graduated from high school in 1976. I had a mood ring and puka shell necklace which they left out of this. The 8 track tapes took up a lot of room in your car being so big so you couldn't carry a lot of them. We wore hip hugger, bell bottom jeans/pants. the bigger the bell the cooler they were. We had the best music of any decade past and present. Queen, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Simon and Garfunkel, The Bee Gees, Cat Stevens, Jim Croce, Bread, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, and the list goes on and on because there were so many great bands that had talent. They didn't have things like auto tune so they had to have real talent to make it and there was so much competition and unbelievably amazing songs came out that people still love today. Who doesn't know Queens We Will Rock you or We are the Champions? Oh and we knew which bathrooms to use and if we were a boy or a girl. There were more important things to do back then than argue about things like that. There were gay people and trans people and we didn't care how they lived and they didn't push it on us and we seemed to all get along fine. On your movie channel if you haven't seen it yet please watch a movie called idiocracy (2006) You can see the world moving towards that now. It's a comedy and worth watching. Thank you for the reaction. It was great as always.

[stephen]

I remember every single thing mentioned. This was literally my childhood and a great list. I can still sing the conjunction junction song along with all the School House Rocks songs.

[randalmayeux]

Hi guys! I turned 14 in 1970, and I remember all of these things. It was at this age that I was allowed out after dark unsupervised, and I made the most of it. Chasing girls, finding out how to get alcohol and other things that were popular. I was out almost every night, though Friday and Saturday nights were big party nights. I had a lot of fun and surprisingly didn't get in too much trouble.

[exeter]

Being born in 1967, this entire video describes my childhood!

[janet]

I had the original clackers. They were made of glass and could shatter and injure anyone close. They made some out of plastic but were not as popular.

[danhollifield]

I was born in 1957, was a kid in the '60s, a teen in the '70s, and had left college for a job in a factory in the '80s. A lot of the references in this video pertained to life in American cities. My life was a touch different since my family bought a farm in the country in 1970. In the '50s and '60s, we lived in moderate-sized cities. In the '70s we had the wide-open spaces of the countryside, dirt roads, High School parties at the houses of friends whose parents were out of town for the weekend, or College parties in town or out in the country. Music was very important, and we were able to make friends with other teens who had similar musical tastes. In college in Athens Georgia, I was old enough to go to nightclubs and parties where I could see REM, the B52s, Love Tractor, Pylon, and many other local bands who would shortly become famous. After 1975, about once a month a group of us would get together and drive 90 miles to Atlanta to go to midnite movie showings of Rocky Horror, Phantom of the Paradise, and loads of other cult classic movies. There were also the local Drive-In movie places where I got to see tons of Godzilla movies, Disney movies, and others. There were video game arcades, record stores, used book stores, movie theaters, bars, nightclubs, restaurants, and whatnot to hang out in. The '60s were full of music, the '70s were innocent and magical, the '80s were full of romance, the '90s saw the introduction of corporate greed and truly dangerous drugs, the '00s on you've lived through. The only constant has always been change. Nothing stays the same forever. Remember the fun, learn from the sad and tragic, celebrate all the good times along the way. Whenever your childhood and teens were, you'll always remember them as the "good old days."

[kippnashleymiller]

I grew up in the 70’s and it was great being able to play outside all over the neighborhood sunrise to sunset and during the summer a couple more hours into the night.
Two things not mentioned was watching the latest motorcycle jump made by daredevil Evel Knievel wondering how bad his injuries would be this time.
The Bicentennial craze in 1976 when everything was red, white & blue, from beer cans to bread.

[CollarCityGuy]

Thanks Millie and James for 15 minutes of nostalgia that brought back many fond memories of my childhood!!

[ciscokid]

Born in 1960 in the US, great childhood…Shag carpet (shuffle your feet and you can shock people 😂), played outside until dark everyday, rode bikes all over the place, roller skating, talked on phone with long cord attached to wall, I Loved my Clackers! 8 track tapes, records, one tv in the house. When Saturday night live came on, it was hilarious. Drive in movies. It still seems like the best of times even if we had little. So much easier. So many things meant so much more than todays spoiled teens with high expectations and throw away attitudes.

[lindaclark]

The 70s were an awesome time to grow up. We had so much fun then!

[jonpoetzl]

Beesleys School House Rock would make a fantastic reaction video series!! You could pick a block of short videos and do a series on the hits. They played Saturday mornings during the cartoon commercial breaks. Learning the basics in a fun way while eating you're favorite breakfast in front of the TV before going out to play. All this stuff brings back great memories for me, the world was a much larger place before the internet.