re: The 1970’s were glorious

I was born in 1968 and everything in this video is correct. Our family vehicle was a ford F-100 long bed. Our Dad had a car bench seat mounted in the back against the cab. This where me and my brother rode. Only time we were allowed in the cab was if it was raining hard. Try this today and you would be arrested.

Anyone remember Westminster in Baton Rouge in the 70s? We used to ride our bikes all fricking day in Pine Park while it was being developed.
Bussing to Valley Park Jr High
Tara High
Ramers.
Stop N Go
The figs from Broadmoor
Pak A Sak
Essen Lane was a frickin two lane from Jefferson to Highland.
frick I am old.

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Yes the music was great. I moved away from Baton Rouge in the early 80s, but I did have a ticket to the Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in '77... that never happened. Think about that all the time.

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Dang, that sucks man. RIP to them all.

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Compared to the 1970s, the U.S. in 2026 is far more diverse, older, and urbanized, with a population that has grown from roughly 200 million to over 349 million. Key shifts include a rise in foreign-born residents (14.8% in 2024 vs. 4.7% in 1970), a shrinking white majority (56-58% in 2026 vs. ~83% in 1970), and doubling of the 65+ population.

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-weather underground

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Today's left is much more extreme and MUCH larger than the Weather Underground ever was. There are as many Antifa groups as WU had individual members.

L'il General

All the boys walked around with orange colored splotches on their knees and elbows from scrapes covered with Mercurochrome

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During the Summer, we would float down the creek by the apartment. It was miles away from the house. Gone all day, no cellphones, adults.

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I did this in the 90s.

We got punished by having to stay inside while all your friends were playing outside. Had lots of fake guns, built lots of forts.

No bras trumps all that.

The 70’s were not glorious. They were depressing times with economic hardship, terrible fashion and horrible gas guzzling cars with leaded fuel. There was so little economic activity that people were actually questioning whether or not this was as far as capitalism could take an economy. Our innovation stalled in the auto sector and Japan raced by us with Datsuns and Nissans. They whipped the V-8 27 foot long OldsmoBuick and sales plummeted. Chrysler went bankrupt. With Carter as President, we were the laughingstock of the world. OPEC said a frick you and cut production and watched our gas supplies dwindle down to nothing. And Carter was too weak to do anything! Then he gave us his famous “national malaise” speech that further depressed people. THE 70’s fricking sucked!

We finally got headed in the right direction when our boys beat the Russians in 80 and thank God Reagan was elected. The Iranians were afraid of him so they made the deal to send the hostages back home. And the rest, as they say, is history!