These Rare Photos Reveal What Teen Life Was Actually Like in the ’70s and ’80s
What 70s and 80s teenagers looked like. ‘8s teen spirit at a local festival in the USA, hanging out in the 1970s. beachgoers in Los Angeles, California in the 1970s. Manhattan Bridge Tower in Brooklyn, New York City, framed through nearby buildings in June of 1974. Before we begin, I just want to say thank you for being part of this journey with who remember.
If our videos have ever made you smile, brought back a memory, or reminded you of a simpler time, then I’d be so grateful if you’d follow us to our new channel, Back to Yesterday. Just hit the link below, subscribe, and let’s keep the memories alive. Boy at bat in a softball game in Highland Park, Brooklyn in July of 1974. grocery shopping in 1968.
A&P grocery store in the 1970s together. Bob’s Big Boy in 1967. Crowd gathered at the Schaefer Band Stand in Central Park to hear singer Judy Collins with a dr4matic view of the towers of Midtown Manhattan. In June of 1973, New Yorkers line up to receive free gifts at a Herald Square store opening in May of 1973.
Despite warning signs, illegal dumping continues in this area just off the New Jersey Turnpike facing Manhattan in March of 1973. Life in the 70s back in the good old days, Midtown traffic congestion and jaywalking pedestrians in April of 1973. Got it. Good. Idled traffic heading north on 6th
Avenue, Avenue of the Americas, near 42nd Street, April 1973. hanging out in the high school parking lot. 1970s Latin Youths at Lynch Park in Brooklyn in June of 1974. If you could put the 1970s in a single photo, a Plymouth GTX in the 1970s. A sidewalk in the Bronx becomes a playground for youngsters. In April of
1973, Burger King employees in the 1970s. Left, a young New Yorker ready to roar off on his Honda in June of 1973. Right. An elevated train platform in Brooklyn, New York City. June 1974. Airplane food. 1970s. Midsummer Evening Quilting B in Central Park. sponsored by the New York Parks Administration Department of Cultural Affairs in June of 1973.
Interior of a graffiti marked subway car. May 1973, 1960s snow for Christmas. It’s every child’s wish for Christmas morning. An auto cha.ssis submerged in Jamaica Bay near Breezy Point in May of 1973. Burger King commercial cast Sarah Mich3lle Geller, Leah Thompson, and Elizabeth Shu.
December 1982, school children on their way home in Great Kills on Staten Island in May of 1973. Carol’s Restaurants in the 1960s, a chain with 150 locations in New York and Pennsylvania. 6th Avenue and 32nd Street, New York City, April 1973. Who remembers Candy Str.i.pes at the hospital? Children play in front of a train graffiti in Brooklyn’s Lynch Park in June of 1974.
Holding your mom’s cigarette while she zips your coat. construction on lower Manhattan’s west side just north of the World Trade Center in May of 1973. If you know who this is, you were probably a teenager in the8s. abandoned giant slide at Coney Island in May of 1973. What concert they going to a traffic accident on a crowded street
in Harlem in May of 1973. A drive in theater from the late 1960s. Pa.ssengers wait for a Lexington Avenue line subway train on one of the platforms of the New York City Transit Authority. April 1974, a family harvesting homegrown veggies in 1975 when seeds were pennies and gardens were family treasures.
Students play in the wind during a school excursion on the Staten Island Ferry crossing upper New York Bay in June of 1973. Jack in the Box in 1970, Needle Park. the ground round in the 1980s. The electric mix, Arby’s in 1967,
A video store near Time Square, 1981. Barefoot Summers of the 1960s. Freedom on a skateboard and sunny roads. Addicted City father teaching his daughter to ride her bike. circa 1970s. The Star W4rs fever. At age 11 in 1971, I got electric football for Christmas.
one of several high rise apartments whose construction was stopped by city ordinance to preserve the Breezy Point Peninsula for public recreational use in May of 1973. 1976 was a good year. Children at Reese Park, a public beach in Brooklyn, July 1974. This screams7s Christmas. Commuters on the Staten Island Ferry in New York Harbor’s Upper Bay.
In May of 1973, Bob’s Big Boy in Glendale, California. In the 1940s, a fire hydrant sprays water behind three young girls on Bond Street in Brooklyn, July 1974. Burger King parking lot in the early 1970s. An oil slick surrounds Liberty Island in New York Harbor in May of 1973. Cars parked along the seashore at Daytona Beach, Florida.
Can you tell which year? Holland tunnel traffic backed up on Canal Street in May of 1973. See this same spot today on Google Street View. Chick fil A in Greenbryer Mall in Atlanta in 1967. Youngsters at play on the July 4th holiday at the Koshusco swimming pool in Brooklyn’s Bedford Stson district in July 1974.
Christmas in Minnesota, 1961. Public pay phone stalls in use at Broadway and 34th Street in May of 1973. The first handheld mobile phone call in history was made one month prior to this photo in Midtown Manhattan in April 1973 when Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher, made a call to his chief competitor, Dr. Joel S.
Engel, head of Bell Labs, Bob’s big boy in 1977. The World Trade Center stands above Lower Hudson River shipping activity seen from the Staten Island Ferry in May of 1973. Decorating the Christmas tree. 1960s. Jumping over habit. Dining at Long John Silvers in the 1970s. the graffiti era.
Getting the TV prepped before I watch my favorite show. Street and subway art Christmas shopping at Woolworth’s 1960s. the Twin Towers and Brooklyn Bridge in 1982. Christmas 1970
shorts. Two women walked together on 34th Street in 1980. One clad in extremely brief p4nts and a sweatband. Photo Richard Sandler. Dairy Queen in the 1970s. The rate race. Men in briefcases shows rush hour at 57th Street as suited men head to work in 1980. photo Richard Sandler. 1970s Red Lobster menu.
Apocalyptic East Village. 1980s. Beer and crackers at a grand union in the mid 1960s. A woman stands in the graffiti covered carriage of the sea train in 1985 as other commuters look on. Photo Richard Sandler. Grocery shopping in 1978. Before the NBA, before high school and college, there was always pickup basketball on the streets of New York City.
Have you ever went Christmas tree cutting with your parents back in the day? The 1980s in New York City were turbulent during that decade. There are people alive today that have never known the joy of shopping for music at a cool music store. New York City, 1980s. In the 1970s, the crop top became a defining fashion trend and it was everywhere.
Girls were on fire indeed. The FDNY was checking it out in 1985 in Time Square. Keg parties in the 1970s were the ultimate expression of youth and freedom. Women stalk Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue clad in expensive fur coats. in 1987. Some great memories made watching cartoons like this. playing Pac Man in the early 1980s.
Stucky’s 1960s, Ramada Inn. in the 1960s. Summertime in the 1970s. Red Cross donut dollies during Vietnam W4r. November 1st, 1955. April 30th, 1975. Target in 1966. Remember when we used to be so healthy?
Teenagers hanging out at the drive in. 1966. Retro Diner. that 70s vibe. Saul Lighter, New York, 1960. The Art of Hitchhiking in the 1970s. school Christmas party in the 60s.
the boardwalk in Atlantic City in 1963. 1966 Chevrolet Caprice Billboard. the lad1es department in Kmart in the early 1970s. 1970s green Plymouth Barracuda and a shiny Georgia beauty tutor. the Ronets before opening for the Beatles in Cleveland 1966
when we used to watch La.ssie. the swinging 70s, a Pacific Southwest Airlines stewardis in the 1970s. This was Las Vegas in 1967. 7 Eleven in 1979 typing cla.ss. Anyone knows what era is this?
A&W root beer drive in in 1976. Venice Beach, 1979. Frell’s Ice Cream Parlor Billboard in Phoenix, Arizona in the 1970. waiting on the school bus in the 1970s, Walmart in the 1970s. 1960s Swanson’s TV dinner.
Kmart in the 1970s. The meatacking district was a d4ngerous area back in the 1980s. Life in the 1960s, New York, 1980s, McDonald’s in 1976. The meat packing district back in the 1980s and in 2018.
the meatacking district back in the 1980s and in 2018. McDonald’s in the 1960s. CBGB was a New York City music club opened in 1973 by Hilly Crystal in Manhattan’s East Village. McDonald’s Party Room in the 1970s. New York State of Mind. Two children stare curiously at a homeless man as they walk with their parents on 32nd Street in 1981.
Photo Richard Sandler. McDonald’s playground in the 1980s. New York City in the Christmas season is known for festive avenues, holiday window displays, and ice skating by the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. For the 1981 holiday season, more pungent decorations were added to the mix. Heaps of garbage, thousands of tons clogging the sidewalks of every street in New York.
Michael J. Fox. The Play Pen Shop near Time Square shuttered in 2007. A Shake Shack has since opened in its location, 8th Avenue and 42nd Street. Ouch. That bar in the middle hu.rts. Life on the streets. A homeless woman stands bare overflowing trash on Fifth A in 1980. 1971 Sears Christmas ads.
Sears in December 1967. Parking lot of an A&W drive in in 1969. Seattle in the mid 1970s. Peak back in time from the sandy beaches of Galveastston Island, 1962. service merchandise in 1985. Pizza in in the 1970s.
Shopping for cereal in 1973. playing back gammon in 1976. How teens lived without smartphones in the 1970s 1980s. 70s fashion style. A&W in 1970. Cla.ssic gaming setup. 1980s nostalgia.
Summer fun in the 70s. A walk in the park with friends. 70s dance party. Grocery shopping in the 70s. Loading up the car at A&P. Photo finishing at a Kodak shop. 1978. Dressed like twins. 1970s summer fun. Me after putting my bike chain back on
in 1988. 97.2% of people over the age of 40 know who lived here. Girls in short dresses in the 70s. Christmas shopping at Kmart in the late ‘7s. Who misses Kmart at Christmas time? If your mom made herself into a ramp for your new BMX, she must really love you. 1980s preparing in flight meals on Panama
Airlines in 1977. Family dining at Long John Silvers. 1980s 70s fun at Arnold’s Drive In with Ralph Mouth’s Roadster 7 Eleven in 1987. Heaven Kroger Checkout in Cincinnati, 1982. Mid century bar.
Kmart appliance depth 1970. Kids rode countless miles in the back of trucks with camper sh3lls. Today in 1987, your school served you this for lunch and you were excited about it. I know it’s trag1c the Wi Fi isn’t working, but let me tell you a story of c4tastrophic proportions from my childhood.
a Gino’s Kentucky Fried Chicken Combo Restaurant in the Ronhurst neighborhood of Philadelphia in 1982. Be honest, whose parents had this over the carpet in the hallway? ABBA iconic 1970s group sh0t. I remember when being rich was standing in front of the penny candy counter with a quarter, a Holiday Inn, and a Gulf service station in the 1970s.
A relic of a longforgotten civilization. A Corvette’s record department in 1974. Remember hearing the music then hurrying to the truck. a Texico gas station during the 197374 gasoline shortage. A&W in 1973. Atari computer demonstration in 1979.
Corell shopping experience. 1970s kitchen wear. Bob’s Big Boy menu from the 1969s. Crown Gas Station in Randlestown, MD. 1970s Boeing 747 economy seats in 1970. Did you ever eat at a Burger Chef? Which location? Christmas morning. Joy. 1970s childhood
memories. Did you ever eat at Samos? What was your favorite item on their menu? Cla.ssic childhood fun with bicycles. 1970s. Driver’s Ed Simulator in the 1970s. Teenagers of 70s. 70s girls bedroom.
A cozy pub moment. 1970s bar hangout. Jungle Gyms Drag Racing 1970s pit stop. When I was a kid, this was our mobile phone. Do you remember an A&P grocery store in the early 1970s? Red Lobster in 1989,
Walmart in the early 1980s. 1970s roadtr.i.p vibes. Fashion and fun with a cla.ssic muscle car. Chilling at the bar. 70s vibes and good times with friends. jogging shorts, spaghetti straps, an ice cream, and a Chevy. Early computer days, a 1970s office scene. family fashions at the park in 1973.
Fun at home, dancing and bonding in the 70s with pets. Helen Gallagher Gifts, a 1969 shopping experience. Celebration time. 1970s party vibes and fun with friends. Venice Beach, 1970s. 1970s summer fun, vibrant fashion and outdoor play.
The vibrant social scene. 1980s bar hangout. Grocery shopping at Wind Dixie, a 70s store experience 1975. Meanwhile, back in the 70s, ‘7s fashion. Pam and Pat show off their style. Just another typical night on Main Street in the 1970s in any town, USA. 1973 CUDA 340 Harveys at Kennedy Road and
Lawrence Avenue East, Scarboro, Ontario. Packed lunch or school lunch. Grocery shopping in the 1970s, a family moment. Easy Bake Oven, a 1970s cla.ssic toy for young bakers. Scandinavian Airlines inflight meal 1970s. Echoes of the 1973 petroleum crisis. how most living rooms looked like in the
70s. Grocery shopping at Zer in 1970. Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1970. Grocery shopping in 1971. K. Martin Walker, Michigan in 1970. Popeye’s restaurant in 1980. Life at Venice Beach in the 70s.
Pizza Hut in 1976. Life in the 70s. Red Barn in 1972. Long John Silver’s menu in the 1970s. shopping at North Park Mall in Ridgeland in the mid 1980s,
McDonald’s 1970s. Vintage shopping, a look at popular products in 1973. NH Nationals, a 1970s dr4g racing moment. Shopping in the 70s, family time and grocery store experience. Orange Julius, a taste of the 1980s mall experience. Sonic’s Kitchen in the 1970s.
Orange Julius in 1978. Southwest Airlines original crew of hostesses in 1971. Which one was your favorite? Driving home for the Christmas holidays. A&W drive in 1978 family picnic 1960s
Burger King in the 1980s, Fremont Street in Las Vegas in 1976, Campus Drive In Theater. Closer view with neon Elijah Boulevard, San Diego, California. 1979. Frell’s Ice Cream Parlor in the 1980s. Chi Chi’s Margarita menu from the 1980s.
grocery shopping in 1980. Christmas in the 70s. Hickory Farms in 1980. Christmas shopping at Fodio’s Supermarket, Cleveland area, late 1960s. How to drink a can of Coke like it’s
- Las Vegas in the 1970s. how we watched TV back in the day. Interior view of McDonald’s and Clayton in the 1980s. Frell’s Ice Cream Parlor in Scottsdale, Arizona. In the 1970s, Italian Kitchen Storefront NYC 1956.
Life on board airplanes was quite different during the golden age of travel. Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1976. Opening Christmas presents, 1977. The 1970s Panama Airline dining experience. Southwest Airlines flight attendant serving drinks to pa.ssengers. 1972.
woman presenting her new TV console. X Maz 1969 Subway Newsand, New York City, 1985. Shopping in 1971. Zay store clearance sale sign. Tech shopping in the 80s. Exploring gadgets and music on discount. Wood Haven BLVD and Jamaica A 1979
Texas Wedding El Paso 1975 1980 Bob’s Big Boy Advertisement the food packaging from McDonald’s in the 1980s. I think just about every family had a croquet set like this in their garage back in the day. Village Cigars Christopher Street 1980s winter Arby’s presents dinner for $135
traveling in style. A 70s fashion moment with friends. Life in the 70s. Walden books in the 1980s. 1961. Riding the skyway through fantasy land. Teen life in the 70s and 80s. Christmas tree on Main Street.
Disneyland. 1970s camera shop. Dairy Queen in 1988. Back to school. Buster Brown shoes, purses, and bags. Sisters, 1970 school year. Daytona Beach, Florida in 1964. Atlanta Pop Festival, July 4th, 1970.
Dinner with the family at Red Lobster. 1970s, a Holiday Inn and a Gulf Service Station. In the 1960s, Palisade Garden roller skating, San Diego, California, 1978. There is one food that sums up a 70s Christmas more than any other fondue. Philip Seymour Hoffman in his dorm room
at NYU in the 80s. This is what Huntington Beach looked like in the 1970s. Red Owl Family Center, somewhere in the Upper Midwest, circa 1970. This is what schools looked like back in the 1970s. Remember those cardboard fireplaces? This is just too cute with the kids and their dog.
Trading Post Story Book Land Golf Claremont Mesa Boulevard San Diego, California. 1970s. Remember TV dinners in aluminum trays. Waiting in line to see The Empire Strikes Back. 1980 Roy Rogers signed in 1982. Walmart in December 1970.
Rustler Steakhouse in the 1970s. water activities in the 1970s at Walt Disney World. Shnook’s grocery store cashier in St. Lewis 1970s with the new bikes grandpa bought 1973 school lunch lad1es 1980s
Party time 1971. Cheap beer, Bl00dy Marys, a BMW TV, and a Hostess. 1980 A&W root beer. From bold fashion to unforgettable hairstyles, these snapsh0ts of 70s and 80s teenagers are a true blast from the past. Which look or style caught your eye? Drop a comment and let us know. If you enjoyed this tr.i.p down memory lane, be sure to like, subscribe, and share with your friends, especially those who lived through the era.
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What 70s and 80s teenagers looked like. ‘8s teen spirit at a local festival in the USA, hanging out in the 1970s. beachgoers in Los Angeles, California in the 1970s. Manhattan Bridge Tower in Brooklyn, New York City, framed through nearby buildings in June of 1974. Before we begin, I just want to say thank you for being part of this journey with who remember.
If our videos have ever made you smile, brought back a memory, or reminded you of a simpler time, then I’d be so grateful if you’d follow us to our new channel, Back to Yesterday. Just hit the link below, subscribe, and let’s keep the memories alive. Boy at bat in a softball game in Highland Park, Brooklyn in July of 1974. grocery shopping in 1968.
A&P grocery store in the 1970s together. Bob’s Big Boy in 1967. Crowd gathered at the Schaefer Band Stand in Central Park to hear singer Judy Collins with a dr4matic view of the towers of Midtown Manhattan. In June of 1973, New Yorkers line up to receive free gifts at a Herald Square store opening in May of 1973.
Despite warning signs, illegal dumping continues in this area just off the New Jersey Turnpike facing Manhattan in March of 1973. Life in the 70s back in the good old days, Midtown traffic congestion and jaywalking pedestrians in April of 1973. Got it. Good. Idled traffic heading north on 6th
Avenue, Avenue of the Americas, near 42nd Street, April 1973. hanging out in the high school parking lot. 1970s Latin Youths at Lynch Park in Brooklyn in June of 1974. If you could put the 1970s in a single photo, a Plymouth GTX in the 1970s. A sidewalk in the Bronx becomes a playground for youngsters. In April of
1973, Burger King employees in the 1970s. Left, a young New Yorker ready to roar off on his Honda in June of 1973. Right. An elevated train platform in Brooklyn, New York City. June 1974. Airplane food. 1970s. Midsummer Evening Quilting B in Central Park. sponsored by the New York Parks Administration Department of Cultural Affairs in June of 1973.
Interior of a graffiti marked subway car. May 1973, 1960s snow for Christmas. It’s every child’s wish for Christmas morning. An auto cha.ssis submerged in Jamaica Bay near Breezy Point in May of 1973. Burger King commercial cast Sarah Mich3lle Geller, Leah Thompson, and Elizabeth Shu.
December 1982, school children on their way home in Great Kills on Staten Island in May of 1973. Carol’s Restaurants in the 1960s, a chain with 150 locations in New York and Pennsylvania. 6th Avenue and 32nd Street, New York City, April 1973. Who remembers Candy Str.i.pes at the hospital? Children play in front of a train graffiti in Brooklyn’s Lynch Park in June of 1974.
Holding your mom’s cigarette while she zips your coat. construction on lower Manhattan’s west side just north of the World Trade Center in May of 1973. If you know who this is, you were probably a teenager in the8s. abandoned giant slide at Coney Island in May of 1973. What concert they going to a traffic accident on a crowded street
in Harlem in May of 1973. A drive in theater from the late 1960s. Pa.ssengers wait for a Lexington Avenue line subway train on one of the platforms of the New York City Transit Authority. April 1974, a family harvesting homegrown veggies in 1975 when seeds were pennies and gardens were family treasures.
Students play in the wind during a school excursion on the Staten Island Ferry crossing upper New York Bay in June of 1973. Jack in the Box in 1970, Needle Park. the ground round in the 1980s. The electric mix, Arby’s in 1967,
A video store near Time Square, 1981. Barefoot Summers of the 1960s. Freedom on a skateboard and sunny roads. Addicted City father teaching his daughter to ride her bike. circa 1970s. The Star W4rs fever. At age 11 in 1971, I got electric football for Christmas.
one of several high rise apartments whose construction was stopped by city ordinance to preserve the Breezy Point Peninsula for public recreational use in May of 1973. 1976 was a good year. Children at Reese Park, a public beach in Brooklyn, July 1974. This screams7s Christmas. Commuters on the Staten Island Ferry in New York Harbor’s Upper Bay.
In May of 1973, Bob’s Big Boy in Glendale, California. In the 1940s, a fire hydrant sprays water behind three young girls on Bond Street in Brooklyn, July 1974. Burger King parking lot in the early 1970s. An oil slick surrounds Liberty Island in New York Harbor in May of 1973. Cars parked along the seashore at Daytona Beach, Florida.
Can you tell which year? Holland tunnel traffic backed up on Canal Street in May of 1973. See this same spot today on Google Street View. Chick fil A in Greenbryer Mall in Atlanta in 1967. Youngsters at play on the July 4th holiday at the Koshusco swimming pool in Brooklyn’s Bedford Stson district in July 1974.
Christmas in Minnesota, 1961. Public pay phone stalls in use at Broadway and 34th Street in May of 1973. The first handheld mobile phone call in history was made one month prior to this photo in Midtown Manhattan in April 1973 when Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher, made a call to his chief competitor, Dr. Joel S.
Engel, head of Bell Labs, Bob’s big boy in 1977. The World Trade Center stands above Lower Hudson River shipping activity seen from the Staten Island Ferry in May of 1973. Decorating the Christmas tree. 1960s. Jumping over habit. Dining at Long John Silvers in the 1970s. the graffiti era.
Getting the TV prepped before I watch my favorite show. Street and subway art Christmas shopping at Woolworth’s 1960s. the Twin Towers and Brooklyn Bridge in 1982. Christmas 1970
shorts. Two women walked together on 34th Street in 1980. One clad in extremely brief p4nts and a sweatband. Photo Richard Sandler. Dairy Queen in the 1970s. The rate race. Men in briefcases shows rush hour at 57th Street as suited men head to work in 1980. photo Richard Sandler. 1970s Red Lobster menu.
Apocalyptic East Village. 1980s. Beer and crackers at a grand union in the mid 1960s. A woman stands in the graffiti covered carriage of the sea train in 1985 as other commuters look on. Photo Richard Sandler. Grocery shopping in 1978. Before the NBA, before high school and college, there was always pickup basketball on the streets of New York City.
Have you ever went Christmas tree cutting with your parents back in the day? The 1980s in New York City were turbulent during that decade. There are people alive today that have never known the joy of shopping for music at a cool music store. New York City, 1980s. In the 1970s, the crop top became a defining fashion trend and it was everywhere.
Girls were on fire indeed. The FDNY was checking it out in 1985 in Time Square. Keg parties in the 1970s were the ultimate expression of youth and freedom. Women stalk Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue clad in expensive fur coats. in 1987. Some great memories made watching cartoons like this. playing Pac Man in the early 1980s.
Stucky’s 1960s, Ramada Inn. in the 1960s. Summertime in the 1970s. Red Cross donut dollies during Vietnam W4r. November 1st, 1955. April 30th, 1975. Target in 1966. Remember when we used to be so healthy?
Teenagers hanging out at the drive in. 1966. Retro Diner. that 70s vibe. Saul Lighter, New York, 1960. The Art of Hitchhiking in the 1970s. school Christmas party in the 60s.
the boardwalk in Atlantic City in 1963. 1966 Chevrolet Caprice Billboard. the lad1es department in Kmart in the early 1970s. 1970s green Plymouth Barracuda and a shiny Georgia beauty tutor. the Ronets before opening for the Beatles in Cleveland 1966
when we used to watch La.ssie. the swinging 70s, a Pacific Southwest Airlines stewardis in the 1970s. This was Las Vegas in 1967. 7 Eleven in 1979 typing cla.ss. Anyone knows what era is this?
A&W root beer drive in in 1976. Venice Beach, 1979. Frell’s Ice Cream Parlor Billboard in Phoenix, Arizona in the 1970. waiting on the school bus in the 1970s, Walmart in the 1970s. 1960s Swanson’s TV dinner.
Kmart in the 1970s. The meatacking district was a d4ngerous area back in the 1980s. Life in the 1960s, New York, 1980s, McDonald’s in 1976. The meat packing district back in the 1980s and in 2018.
the meatacking district back in the 1980s and in 2018. McDonald’s in the 1960s. CBGB was a New York City music club opened in 1973 by Hilly Crystal in Manhattan’s East Village. McDonald’s Party Room in the 1970s. New York State of Mind. Two children stare curiously at a homeless man as they walk with their parents on 32nd Street in 1981.
Photo Richard Sandler. McDonald’s playground in the 1980s. New York City in the Christmas season is known for festive avenues, holiday window displays, and ice skating by the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. For the 1981 holiday season, more pungent decorations were added to the mix. Heaps of garbage, thousands of tons clogging the sidewalks of every street in New York.
Michael J. Fox. The Play Pen Shop near Time Square shuttered in 2007. A Shake Shack has since opened in its location, 8th Avenue and 42nd Street. Ouch. That bar in the middle hu.rts. Life on the streets. A homeless woman stands bare overflowing trash on Fifth A in 1980. 1971 Sears Christmas ads.
Sears in December 1967. Parking lot of an A&W drive in in 1969. Seattle in the mid 1970s. Peak back in time from the sandy beaches of Galveastston Island, 1962. service merchandise in 1985. Pizza in in the 1970s.
Shopping for cereal in 1973. playing back gammon in 1976. How teens lived without smartphones in the 1970s 1980s. 70s fashion style. A&W in 1970. Cla.ssic gaming setup. 1980s nostalgia.
Summer fun in the 70s. A walk in the park with friends. 70s dance party. Grocery shopping in the 70s. Loading up the car at A&P. Photo finishing at a Kodak shop. 1978. Dressed like twins. 1970s summer fun. Me after putting my bike chain back on
in 1988. 97.2% of people over the age of 40 know who lived here. Girls in short dresses in the 70s. Christmas shopping at Kmart in the late ‘7s. Who misses Kmart at Christmas time? If your mom made herself into a ramp for your new BMX, she must really love you. 1980s preparing in flight meals on Panama
Airlines in 1977. Family dining at Long John Silvers. 1980s 70s fun at Arnold’s Drive In with Ralph Mouth’s Roadster 7 Eleven in 1987. Heaven Kroger Checkout in Cincinnati, 1982. Mid century bar.
Kmart appliance depth 1970. Kids rode countless miles in the back of trucks with camper sh3lls. Today in 1987, your school served you this for lunch and you were excited about it. I know it’s trag1c the Wi Fi isn’t working, but let me tell you a story of c4tastrophic proportions from my childhood.
a Gino’s Kentucky Fried Chicken Combo Restaurant in the Ronhurst neighborhood of Philadelphia in 1982. Be honest, whose parents had this over the carpet in the hallway? ABBA iconic 1970s group sh0t. I remember when being rich was standing in front of the penny candy counter with a quarter, a Holiday Inn, and a Gulf service station in the 1970s.
A relic of a longforgotten civilization. A Corvette’s record department in 1974. Remember hearing the music then hurrying to the truck. a Texico gas station during the 197374 gasoline shortage. A&W in 1973. Atari computer demonstration in 1979.
Corell shopping experience. 1970s kitchen wear. Bob’s Big Boy menu from the 1969s. Crown Gas Station in Randlestown, MD. 1970s Boeing 747 economy seats in 1970. Did you ever eat at a Burger Chef? Which location? Christmas morning. Joy. 1970s childhood
memories. Did you ever eat at Samos? What was your favorite item on their menu? Cla.ssic childhood fun with bicycles. 1970s. Driver’s Ed Simulator in the 1970s. Teenagers of 70s. 70s girls bedroom.
A cozy pub moment. 1970s bar hangout. Jungle Gyms Drag Racing 1970s pit stop. When I was a kid, this was our mobile phone. Do you remember an A&P grocery store in the early 1970s? Red Lobster in 1989,
Walmart in the early 1980s. 1970s roadtr.i.p vibes. Fashion and fun with a cla.ssic muscle car. Chilling at the bar. 70s vibes and good times with friends. jogging shorts, spaghetti straps, an ice cream, and a Chevy. Early computer days, a 1970s office scene. family fashions at the park in 1973.
Fun at home, dancing and bonding in the 70s with pets. Helen Gallagher Gifts, a 1969 shopping experience. Celebration time. 1970s party vibes and fun with friends. Venice Beach, 1970s. 1970s summer fun, vibrant fashion and outdoor play.
The vibrant social scene. 1980s bar hangout. Grocery shopping at Wind Dixie, a 70s store experience 1975. Meanwhile, back in the 70s, ‘7s fashion. Pam and Pat show off their style. Just another typical night on Main Street in the 1970s in any town, USA. 1973 CUDA 340 Harveys at Kennedy Road and
Lawrence Avenue East, Scarboro, Ontario. Packed lunch or school lunch. Grocery shopping in the 1970s, a family moment. Easy Bake Oven, a 1970s cla.ssic toy for young bakers. Scandinavian Airlines inflight meal 1970s. Echoes of the 1973 petroleum crisis. how most living rooms looked like in the
70s. Grocery shopping at Zer in 1970. Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1970. Grocery shopping in 1971. K. Martin Walker, Michigan in 1970. Popeye’s restaurant in 1980. Life at Venice Beach in the 70s.
Pizza Hut in 1976. Life in the 70s. Red Barn in 1972. Long John Silver’s menu in the 1970s. shopping at North Park Mall in Ridgeland in the mid 1980s,
McDonald’s 1970s. Vintage shopping, a look at popular products in 1973. NH Nationals, a 1970s dr4g racing moment. Shopping in the 70s, family time and grocery store experience. Orange Julius, a taste of the 1980s mall experience. Sonic’s Kitchen in the 1970s.
Orange Julius in 1978. Southwest Airlines original crew of hostesses in 1971. Which one was your favorite? Driving home for the Christmas holidays. A&W drive in 1978 family picnic 1960s
Burger King in the 1980s, Fremont Street in Las Vegas in 1976, Campus Drive In Theater. Closer view with neon Elijah Boulevard, San Diego, California. 1979. Frell’s Ice Cream Parlor in the 1980s. Chi Chi’s Margarita menu from the 1980s.
grocery shopping in 1980. Christmas in the 70s. Hickory Farms in 1980. Christmas shopping at Fodio’s Supermarket, Cleveland area, late 1960s. How to drink a can of Coke like it’s
Las Vegas in the 1970s. how we watched TV back in the day. Interior view of McDonald’s and Clayton in the 1980s. Frell’s Ice Cream Parlor in Scottsdale, Arizona. In the 1970s, Italian Kitchen Storefront NYC 1956.
Life on board airplanes was quite different during the golden age of travel. Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1976. Opening Christmas presents, 1977. The 1970s Panama Airline dining experience. Southwest Airlines flight attendant serving drinks to pa.ssengers. 1972.
woman presenting her new TV console. X Maz 1969 Subway Newsand, New York City, 1985. Shopping in 1971. Zay store clearance sale sign. Tech shopping in the 80s. Exploring gadgets and music on discount. Wood Haven BLVD and Jamaica A 1979
Texas Wedding El Paso 1975 1980 Bob’s Big Boy Advertisement the food packaging from McDonald’s in the 1980s. I think just about every family had a croquet set like this in their garage back in the day. Village Cigars Christopher Street 1980s winter Arby’s presents dinner for $135
traveling in style. A 70s fashion moment with friends. Life in the 70s. Walden books in the 1980s. 1961. Riding the skyway through fantasy land. Teen life in the 70s and 80s. Christmas tree on Main Street.
Disneyland. 1970s camera shop. Dairy Queen in 1988. Back to school. Buster Brown shoes, purses, and bags. Sisters, 1970 school year. Daytona Beach, Florida in 1964. Atlanta Pop Festival, July 4th, 1970.
Dinner with the family at Red Lobster. 1970s, a Holiday Inn and a Gulf Service Station. In the 1960s, Palisade Garden roller skating, San Diego, California, 1978. There is one food that sums up a 70s Christmas more than any other fondue. Philip Seymour Hoffman in his dorm room
at NYU in the 80s. This is what Huntington Beach looked like in the 1970s. Red Owl Family Center, somewhere in the Upper Midwest, circa 1970. This is what schools looked like back in the 1970s. Remember those cardboard fireplaces? This is just too cute with the kids and their dog.
Trading Post Story Book Land Golf Claremont Mesa Boulevard San Diego, California. 1970s. Remember TV dinners in aluminum trays. Waiting in line to see The Empire Strikes Back. 1980 Roy Rogers signed in 1982. Walmart in December 1970.
Rustler Steakhouse in the 1970s. water activities in the 1970s at Walt Disney World. Shnook’s grocery store cashier in St. Lewis 1970s with the new bikes grandpa bought 1973 school lunch lad1es 1980s
Party time 1971. Cheap beer, Bl00dy Marys, a BMW TV, and a Hostess. 1980 A&W root beer. From bold fashion to unforgettable hairstyles, these snapsh0ts of 70s and 80s teenagers are a true blast from the past. Which look or style caught your eye? Drop a comment and let us know. If you enjoyed this tr.i.p down memory lane, be sure to like, subscribe, and share with your friends, especially those who lived through the era.
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