No helmet, no protective gear. Mom just taking a video while a kid jumps over 10 trash cans, crashes, brushes himself off and says, "I guess I'll try again next Monday!"

'Merica

This answers the question “What were the 70s like?” better in two minutes than I could answer it with a thousand words. Quite likely the best thing you’ll see today. Just trust me.pic.twitter.com/P4Q706Emt2

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) December 7, 2023

Teenage boy. Long hair. Wearing his mom's clothes. What's changed?

Helmets? Pretty sure you would have gotten you azz kicked back in the 70s for that.

Also, I remember my two sisters, my three cousins and I all hopping in back of a pickup truck to ride to town. You'd be arrested now for that.

This looks like the real life "Hot Rod" movie. Great job!

The 70s were an awesome time

The blubber was blasted beyond all believable bounds!!

I feel extremely blessed to have been born in 1981, and to have come up in the 80's and 90's. I miss those times every day. That being said, i think being born a decade earlier might be the ultimate sweet spot. I bet the 70's and being an adolescent/teenager in the 80's would have ben FREAKIN AWESOME.

The 80's and 90's were our civilization's high water mark.

man it was great being a kid back then. never wore a helmet, left at dawn and came home at dusk. great times.

We did the same thing in the 90s.

Never wore a helmet. Rode our bikes from sun up to sun down all over the town, "the woods", anywhere and everywhere.

GeorgiAg said:

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Also, I remember my two sisters, my three cousins and I all hopping in back of a pickup truck to ride to town. You'd be arrested now for that.

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With a rifle or shotgun in the gun rack on school property.

Damn right we are.

GeorgiAg said:

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Helmets? Pretty sure you would have gotten you azz kicked back in the 70s for that.

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Still can.

That jump was weak.

Detmersdislocatedshoulder said:

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man it was great being a kid back then. never wore a helmet, left at dawn and came home at dusk. great times.

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This. The late 60's and the entire 70's were awsome. And, to add to your recollection Detmer, we had ZERO latch key kids as the doors to our homes were never locked.

TexAgs91 said:

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The 70s were an awesome time

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THAR SHE BLOWS!!!!

Kids would be charged with terrorism today for some of the things we did back in the 70's and 80's.

Bottle rocket fights
BB gun battles
Big wheel races down the steep hills
Sled races and snowball fights
Street soccer with flaming tennis balls
Homemade firecrackers
Burning those Christmas bags that was filled with sand and candles
Backyard sports
Bike races through the woods
Ghosts in the Graveyard chase games late at night
TP the neighbors yard

BG Knocc Out said:

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I feel extremely blessed to have been born in 1981, and to have come up in the 80's and 90's. I miss those times every day. That being said, i think being born a decade earlier might be the ultimate sweet spot. I bet the 70's and being an adolescent/teenager in the 80's would have ben FREAKIN AWESOME.

The 80's and 90's were our civilization's high water mark.

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I was born in 1959 so my adolescence was in the 60s, teenage years in the 70s, twenties in the 80s, thirties in the 90s. That was a pretty sweet spot for each of those ages. Other than AIDs in the 80s, a free wheeling time.

Detmersdislocatedshoulder said:

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man it was great being a kid back then. never wore a helmet, left at dawn and came home at dusk. great times.

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My dad had an old 1965 Plymouth Barracuda with the gigantic back window that he drove all through the 80's. I remember my bro and I just riding around in the back of that thing as little kids and looking up at the sky...no car seats, no seatbelts, rolling around being stupid...no one cared.

I cruise around in my immediate neighborhood with my toddler in my lap sometimes and get some very nasty looks.

aggiehawg said:

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BG Knocc Out said:

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I feel extremely blessed to have been born in 1981, and to have come up in the 80's and 90's. I miss those times every day. That being said, i think being born a decade earlier might be the ultimate sweet spot. I bet the 70's and being an adolescent/teenager in the 80's would have ben FREAKIN AWESOME.

The 80's and 90's were our civilization's high water mark.

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I was born in 1959 so my adolescence was in the 60s, teenage years in the 70s, twenties in the 80s, thirties in the 90s. That was a pretty sweet spot for each of those ages. Other than AIDs in the 80s, a free wheeling time.

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I'm right there with you Hawg. Born in 58, I had the same experiences. I knew we had a lot in common.

aggiehawg said:

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BG Knocc Out said:

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I feel extremely blessed to have been born in 1981, and to have come up in the 80's and 90's. I miss those times every day. That being said, i think being born a decade earlier might be the ultimate sweet spot. I bet the 70's and being an adolescent/teenager in the 80's would have ben FREAKIN AWESOME.

The 80's and 90's were our civilization's high water mark.

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I was born in 1959 so my adolescence was in the 60s, teenage years in the 70s, twenties in the 80s, thirties in the 90s. That was a pretty sweet spot for each of those ages. Other than AIDs in the 80s, a free wheeling time.

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Yeah, I was about to say, being born in the early 60's or late 50's would have been pretty awesome too. As a child in the 80's, I was blown away by some of the stories my dad (born in 1953) would tell us about being a kid in the 60's.

And afterwards the gang had a great session of lawn darts and then shot bottle rockets at each other after dark

This makes me chuckle and think "damn, we did some pretty stupid stuff back then. But it was fun."

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And afterwards the gang had a great session of lawn darts and then shot bottle rockets at each other after dark

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That hair, lol.

DD88 said:

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Kids would be charged with terrorism today for some of the things we did back in the 70's and 80's.

Bottle rocket fights
BB gun battles
Big wheel races down the steep hills
Sled races and snowball fights
Street soccer with flaming tennis balls
Homemade firecrackers
Burning those Christmas bags that was filled with sand and candles
Backyard sports
Bike races through the woods
Ghosts in the Graveyard chase games late at night
TP the neighbors yard

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you got weapons for Xmas and birthdays, like lawn darts

I did this in the 6th grade. Chipped a tooth. The beating my Mom gave me hurt way more than the bike crash.

She was furious as she had lots of money invested in my teeth.

BillYeoman said:

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That jump was weak.

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It was the bearings.

The days before the internet had kids glued to their phones and streaming videos. We had no choice but to go outside if we wanted to entertain ourselves, and that's where we got bruised and dirty but learned more by the time we were twelve than most 30-yr olds today. I see Millenials join the workforce today and weep for how soft and sheltered and entitled they are.

DD88 said:

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Kids would be charged with terrorism today for some of the things we did back in the 70's and 80's.

Bottle rocket fights
BB gun battles
Big wheel races down the steep hills
Sled races and snowball fights
Street soccer with flaming tennis balls
Homemade firecrackers
Burning those Christmas bags that was filled with sand and candles
Backyard sports
Bike races through the woods
Ghosts in the Graveyard chase games late at night
TP the neighbors yard

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My son tells me he would be in juvie if he even attempted some of the stuff I did in HS.


Especially when I was told I should know better than that by the principals

Dad built a go-cart for my older brother. Welded the seat and frame and used an old edger engine for power. On Sundays, the malls were closed so we would go drive around the mall parking lots.I was maybe 5-6 years old. Dad made me wear my brother's football helmet (which didn't fit anyway) but he let me drive it. Did I mention it went 20 miles per hour and was a one seater? It also had a kill switch on top of the engine just behind the seat.

In one those classic Dad moments, "Don't tell your mother about this," I was hauling ass around the parking lot, took a wrong turn and wound up on the access road to the freeway with my brother and father running after me. I immediately knew I had made a wrong turn, pulled over to the curb and I just reached back and killed the engine waiting for them to catch up with me. I wasn't scared but it scared the hell out of them.

Dad's nickname was always the Big Kid because a lot of what we were doing he was right there with us. Water skiing, chasing each other on Honda Hundred dirtbikes through the woods at night.

aggie93 said:

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No helmet, no protective gear. Mom just taking a video while a kid jumps over 10 trash cans, crashes, brushes himself off and says, "I guess I'll try again next Monday!"

'Merica

This answers the question “What were the 70s like?” better in two minutes than I could answer it with a thousand words. Quite likely the best thing you’ll see today. Just trust me.pic.twitter.com/P4Q706Emt2

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) December 7, 2023

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Wish I still had my blue Stingray with the sissy bar.