20 Things From The 1970s, We Can No Longer Do!

LSD in the 70s😵‍💫 Orange Sunshine, Purple Haze, Window Pane, Purple Micro Dot, Pink Floyd will never go away. Mr. Natural Lives On.

I loved catalogs then and still do.

All I can say about this video is Thanks for the Memories.🇺🇲🤔🤔🇺🇲

Oh how I love the 70’s. All these thing mentioned in the video I experienced it. The days playing all day doing anything with the neighborhood kids & only coming in for lunch & dinner. Going to the drive-in as a teenage & hiding in trunk for some of us.🤣 There’s a drive-in close by me in the summer now but no hiding now 🤣 & I still play records on my record play. The hours I spent in phone booth down the street from home as a teen talking secretly to my boyfriend. 👍😁

Platform shoes. Mood rings and puka-shell necklaces. Disco (Gone, thank goodness). Decent meals on airline flights

In 2025, your ID must have REAL ID to fly domestically. Before 9/11, security was lax at airports. You could rush to the airport within 30 minutes of your flight, but not anymore. TSA says to arrive 2 hours before you flight to go through security

In the early 1980s, two beautiful young woman were murdered after hitchhiking in California

Takes me back.
I still remember our moms kicking us all out of the house in the mornings with the only stipulations being "be back for lunch" and then outside again until the "street lights come on."... sigh....good times, good times.

That thumbnail is from the fifties.

The 70s was a decade when the feminist movement really took off, securing abortion rights, fighting like Hell for equal pay for equal work, getting cops to start responding to spousal abuse instead of treating it as a man's right as "head of household", securing the right of a women to apply for a credit card in her own name, and all the other rights and degrees of respect many young people don't realize their grandparents battled for in the trenches.

Applying a thumbnail of a servile "happy homemaker" of the 50's is rather insulting for a woman of the 70s.

Even with you pointing out that drive-in movie theaters are not so commonplace anymore, I still think they're disqualified as there are people who can still legally go to these locations.

The only place you can get away with Hitchhiking is in Japan.

Hence why Digimon Adventure 01 has a scene of the main characters resorting to hitchhiking. The random stranger they end up with was changed to being a relative in the Saban dub.

Not to mention with computer keyboards there are different types of switches.

Although thankfully Apple's Butterfly switches are basically extinct in favor of the Magic keyboard.

Watching cartoons based on a TV schedule; while on the decline, has not yet entered true extinction. Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Toonami, and Adult Swim still have their TV blocks.

Reading newspapers can still be done. Heck, I read those newspaper comics in the 2000s.

That said, I'm not crying over the coming extinction of newspapers. They're not that much more truthful than news channels and some official news online sources. Not to mention their extinction will result in less trees getting chopped down.

About power windows on cars. They are only safer if the key is in the ignition. Manual windows are safer in an emergency if the car is not turned on.

Speaking of checks; Target will no longer be allowing them starting the next week. While I think that's a tad too soon, the fact they will now be denying checks is not surprising.

So i have heard plastic waste is returned to China and they have it.

I've got 3 words for those who were kids in the '70s: Sears. Christmas. Catalog.

our local drive in recently went from 2 screens to 5!

vinyl certainly sounds best!

wikipedia reliable ?? you are silly

watching tv at that time and missing it. that the vcr came after then the OTR by your cable or dish. then the steaming now. its kinda true but ya missed a time jump in it

So ; as society became safer and more convenient it has become stupider and lazier

70'S ROCKED PERIOD

I still have that radio shack 8 track tape deck and a pieoneer 8 track/ FM radio deck in my HS car I've owned for 51 years.

Who all used a pair of plyers to roll down the window when the handle broke 😂🤣🤣🤣

Such fun!

I have an old printer that uses a ribbon ink cartridge similar to a typewriter and requires fanfold paper.

Flying TWA all the seats in the back were smoking; ash trays in all the arm rests. Thumb a ride because yellow cabs were too expensive.

I miss reading the Sunday funny papers and doing the crossword puzzles in newspapers.

Crank handles on car windows are better and safer especially when trying to escape your car. Keep it simple less to go wrong. Also makes it harder to steal your car.

People are now slaves to high tech...thats the purpose.

Problem now is all of our 'news' we get is slanted left. Even Google and Wikipedia are biased/slanted. Countless times I've gone to Google, etc and received perceived opinions/interpretations as 'facts'.
Case in point? Look up Kennedy assination or Warren Commission report.
Pretty sad reality knowing your kids, neighbors, community and your country are being fed lies and slants as facts. 😮

Another problem with today's cars with electric windows. You cannot raise or lower windows once power is compromised in anyway. I lost power due to a failed alternator which drained the battery. Couldn't roll up my windows, raining I had to leave the car and walk to call road service( forgot cell phone at home). Got back in time to realize facts. Stereo and other valuables were gone including the dead battery. Seat is soaked. Towed to garage. 😮
Yeh, modern technology means you can't roll up your window to lock your car if you lose power nor roll down your window if your submerged ie: accident. Say buh bye.

How about another one... The concluding message on documentaries, such as "Thank you for watching this documentary, I hope you enjoyed...." rather than these abrupt endings such as this one that I'm seeing way too much of lately.

I sure do miss the 70,s and the sears catalog "AKA" the school boys penthouse.

"shtreaming" is not a word.

I know where there is working pay phones are and I still drive with out a seat belt and I still have all my vinyl records and 8 track tapes and cassette tapes I still drive an old car and ride a old Harley Davidson Sportster I even have all my old CB radios and I have not changed from the 70's I still have all my old cameras I still listen to my old music from the 70's I was born in 1966 but I ve never left those years

With all the vapes now you still can't breath fresh air. All this vaping going on smells like chemicals in the air.

Tuning in to the radio at the drive in? When did that newfangled idea start?

I fear we are safety concerning ourselves into extinction. If you wonder what I mean, listen to the early 70s song "2525".

Too bad we sacrificed safty and security for our freedoms 😢

This makes me feel really old!