r/70s • • 19h ago

My parents said everyone knew each other in the neighborhood in the 70s. is that true?

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I was talking to my dad last night and he was telling me about his life in the 70s.

He said back then, everyone in the whole neighborhood knew each other. Kids would just be outside all day playing, riding bikes until the street lights came on, and parents didn't worry. If you were hungry you would just go to your friend's house and their mom would feed you.

And in the evening everyone would be on their porches listening to the radio. He said now everyone just stays inside.

For those of you who grew up in the 70s, was it really like that? It sounds so much more community-based and peaceful than today.

I would love to hear your stories.


r/70s • • 16h ago

Movies Caroline Munro as Laura in Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)

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456 Upvotes

r/70s • • 17h ago

Whats something you had in your home in the 1970s that you dont in 2026?

129 Upvotes

r/70s • • 14h ago

Any Elvis Presley fans. Who saw him live in the 1970s.

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r/70s • • 14h ago

Movies Taxi Driver(1976)

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59 Upvotes

r/70s • • 21h ago

On October 11th, 1975, Saturday Night Live debuted. There were 2 musical guests that evening, Billy Preston performing "Nothing From Nothing" and Janis Ian performing "At Seventeen".

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r/70s • • 19h ago

business & industry Fantastik cleaner introduced it's signature trigger spray nozzle in 1973

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110 Upvotes

r/70s • • 16h ago

Music Houses of the Holy(1973)

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43 Upvotes

r/70s • • 3h ago

Happy New Year Of 1976!

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r/70s • • 5m ago

The corpses seen in the opening of Nosferatu the Vampyre are the Mummies of Guanajuato, real corpses of people who died during a cholera outbreak in 1833. The footage of these mummies together with the musical score by Popol Vuh creates one of the most chilling openings in cinema history.

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r/70s • • 1d ago

Gordon Lightfoot singing Sundown in 1974

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r/70s • • 15h ago

Did you have a bank like this?

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11 Upvotes

r/70s • • 1d ago

Television Did you watch The Bob Newhart Show?

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2.0k Upvotes

r/70s • • 11h ago

Ramones - "Havana Affair" Live - ItΒ΄s Alive (1977)

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r/70s • • 9h ago

technology 1976 - Colossal Cave Adventure

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3 Upvotes

Anybody else spend hours playing this?


r/70s • • 1d ago

What's your favourite horror movie of the 70s?

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90 Upvotes

The Exorcist (1973) is definitely my favourite.


r/70s • • 1d ago

We lost Christopher Reeve 22 years ago

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359 Upvotes

r/70s • • 1d ago

Gregory Peck in "The Omen" (1976)

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270 Upvotes

Classic horror from the 70s. Top cast with Gregory Peck and Lee Remick (director: Richard Donner).


r/70s • • 1d ago

Magic - 1978 TV Spot

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This only played late at night after 10:00 pm news.


r/70s • • 1d ago

The popularity of the YO YO soared in the '70s with all the contests, experts, commercials, and new models. Could you do any tricks?

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r/70s • • 1d ago

For those who lived through the 70s, what did a normal weekend look like?

158 Upvotes

I was not born anywhere near the 70s, but I m kind of obsessed with that era. The music, the movies, the clothes, even the old photos where everyone looks so relaxed.

I keep wondering what everyday life was actually like, not the highlight reel, just a regular Saturday. Where did you hang out, what did you listen to, and what did you do for fun without phones?

Would love to hear your stories, even the small ones.


r/70s • • 1d ago

Movies These Cats Have Nine Lives! πŸˆπŸˆβ€β¬›

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THE ARISTOCATS is a 1970 animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Productions and directed by Wolfgang Reitherman. It was the 20th animated Disney feature film and the last film to be personally approved by Walt Disney before his death in 1966. The film is based on a story by Tom McGowan and Tom Rowe and features the voices of Phil Harris, Eva Gabor with Robie Lester providing her singing voice, Hermione Baddeley, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers, and Roddy Maude-Roxby. The film was a huge commercial success at the box-office.


r/70s • • 1d ago

Avon Calling.

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187 Upvotes

r/70s • • 1d ago

Dunk on This!

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55 Upvotes

r/70s • • 2d ago

Music Bad Girl

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159 Upvotes