If You Grew Up in the 1970s…You Remember This!

No cell phones, personal computers, or social media. We had each other. Face to face. We talked, laughed, rode our bikes, climbed trees, watched Saturday morning cartoons, and Saturday Night Live at night, roller skated or skate boarded, and danced to some of the best music ever made. We didn't even realize how good we had it until it was gone.

Watergate is nothing compared to now.

Every car had a cigarette lighter, no one wore a seat belt, a bike helmet or checked their Halloween candy and yet, here we are, in our mid 60s and going strong.

I used to wear tube socks and now that I’m older I’m wearing something similar called compression socks🤣

We really didn't understand just how good we had it. I'd do it over again in a heartbeat.

Who remembers “Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific” shampoo?

It was great being 20 in the 70's , not so great being 70 in the 20's .... 🌎✌️🌍

Pretty safe to say that the youth growing up now are much more troubled than we were back in the 60s and 70s

I'm a late stage Boomer (1959) and was 11 in 1970. I Spent my Whole Teen Age years in the 70's. Best Music, Best Friendships, Best Experiences in my Life.

Casey Kasem kept us up to date with the top 40 hits every week.

I Was born in 1959. Was a kid in the 60s and 70s and a young man in the 80s. Great times/memories. Wouldn't trade places with a kid today for all the money in the world. Incredible original music: 60s, 70s and 80s.

We were fortunate enough to grow up in the ABSOLUTE BEST era in which humans have ever existed. We had modern conveniences, we were outside playing all day, getting dirty was a given and imagination ruled. We learned to use our brains and our hands to fix problems and had to actually remember the phone number of every person you knew. The American dream was still attainable on a single middle class income, and yes we made plenty of buffoon moves but there was not a camera pointed at you 24/7, and NONE of our dumb assed mistakes live in eternity on the internet. Your word meant something, things were built to last, and fixing the national deficit and balancing the budget was an actual possibility. I feel blessed as hell to have grown up between the 60s and the 80s, as in my mind it is the GOLDEN AGE of human existence!!!!

There will NEVER be a show like the original shows and cast of Saturday Night Live

Got married in 71 and had a dumpy apt but loved every minute of it! Still married!!❤❤✌️

I grew up in the 70s. I'm not GenX. I'm a Boomer ('63). I loved the 70s, and to this very day, 1970s music is still the best ever. That's my humble opinion. 😁✌️🤗🎶

I was born in 1971. I remember all of this and wish I could go back! Back then, no cell phones, no internet, email or social media. If you wanted to talk to a friend, you called them on your "land line" and then rode your bike or had your parents drop you off. Great memories!

Spencer Gifts black light posters, muscle cars, smoke filled rock concerts, banana-seat bikes, Circus Magazine and watching Combat! That was my 70's and I loved it.

1976 was the best! Bicentennial, country wide patriotism! Not like today!

I remember my sister and I getting crochet vests. They were all the rage. I loved shagged carpets, I still have them today. Mood rings, pet rocks, bike riding without a helmet, earth shoes, clackers, cartoons, Tiger Beat magazine, playing in construction zones (we knew to avoid the wooden planks with 6 inch protruding nails, no one had to warn us), going out on Halloween without an adult. We had freedom that no kid today could possibly imagine.

Born 62, and i had the very special time portal in life to go through elementary, intermediate, and high school all in the 70s. Wouldn't change a thing.