The America We Knew: March 1970

I was 9 going on 10.

Madge the Palmolive woman was actually one of the survivors of the tragic Hartford circus fire in the late 1940s. The other famous person who survived that disaster was Charles Nelson Riley.

The lead singer of the rapper, Donnie Iris is still rocking hard in the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania area at age 80, no plans to retire either

Oh how I miss those days. Thanks for the trip back if only for a few minutes.😊

I would be 7 that year and it was a good time to be a kid. I miss it.

That eclipse went on last Summer and now it's December 2024, I know because I'm 62 years old and I remember the eclipse of 1970.

Midi vs. Mini. It was wonderful you could choose and when in doubt, bell bottom jeans. I lived in those when off of school uniform.
Great music and an awesome closing tune.
Far out, Fred-ssi. 💜🤟

He ain't heavy, he's my brother...what a different world it would be if people took it and some other songs of the day seriously! Thanks for this look back Fred.

I don't remember the postal strike. Airport was touted as a return to an old fashioned big budget Hollywood movie, instead of the counterculture movies that had become popular. I witnessed a total eclipse in Wyoming in 2017. The greatest astronomical event I have ever witnessed. Pictures CANNOT do it justice. Great look back, Fred.

Another Good one, Freddie!!! I distinctly remember ALL the interesting articles I read in the Barbie Benton PLAYBOY Magazine! ;-)

AIRPORT - one of my all-time favorite films from the '70s!!

I was born 3 months lat in 1970

Totally ❤❤❤ this Fred thank you for everything you do and done for us all

I was 12 years old March 1970…turned 13 years old in September 1970. Mahalo from Hawaii, Fred. 🏄🏄‍♀️🌺🤙

I was 1💕

Now that was a Barbi I wouldn't have minded playing with :)

Beautiful, Fred. Wonderful way to end an episode.
If you were a kid in school in those days, I about guarantee you had a
music teacher that was hellbent on teaching the class/choir that song.
I still have it on 45 somewhere around here....
Thank you and Merry Christmas everyone!
- Ed on the Ridge

This is close on the end of the 1960s, though it will be finalised the next month (I won't do the spoiler - FredFLix will cover it we can be assured in April 1970). As always, a F-eFFing Fantastic VIdeo!

Merry Christmas Fred!
This is such a great channel to lose myself in. I look forward to going back to my age at the time of the video: in this one I was turning 11 this March!❤

Wow, Fred. Just… wow.

Thanks for the shout out to Airport, my all time favorite guilty pleasure movie.
Few things put us in the timeline than those Madge/ Palmolive ads.
MASH was a smash, It played in some cities for over a year in one theater (First R-rated movie I saw, (at 16 yet)

Wow!!!!! Angie Dickinson and Lloyd Bridges in the ABC Movie Of The Week “The Love War”!!!! My nine year old mind was blown by that movie! I loved all the ABC movies of the week, especially the horror/sci-fi/ghostly ones.
Thanks for another blast, Fred👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Wow! Watertown by Frank Sinatra. I was pleasantly surprised to see that pop up in the video. One of my favorite albums by him. A great album that hasn't really gotten the respect it deserves until very recently. Thanks for including it, and thanks for continuing to make these time-traveling videos.

ln 1970 l was 14, living in L.A. ABC network would show made for t.v. movies. One that l thought stood out, was Tribes, Jan Michael Vincent played a hippie marine recruit who conflicted with his D.I., both coming from totally different worlds.

❤ this is a great series I love the music and thank you for including comic books as well

Heh...I remember our class taught us how to make a solar eclipse viewer using a shoebox and a pinhole back then. And it wouldn't be back until 2024...good prediction. I turned 8 in March 1970, and I caught this year's eclipse in a parking lot of Tuttle Mall in Dublin OH at age 62. Man, how time flies....

The Rapper sure doesn't sound like a 1970 song, it's more like a late '70s or early '80s tune. Ahead of their time.

I loved "airport" and m*a*s*h* and we all know which show that featured Palmolive commercial😊. I think i saw Barbie Benton on another cover of the magazine that was featured in 1969. I see why the mdi didn't catch on. I also loved S&G and C,S,N &Y albums

Yes! I definitely remember that alien movie but never knew its name

As kids we were all scared we would go blind because we glanced at the eclipse

Great tunes Fred! BOTW for the ending. Awesome 👏

Women's lib was the beginning of the end.

Remember going to the store and promising to eat even the crummy cereal in the mixed pack. I didn't like special K because I'm not special.

The Lloyd Bridges movie looks interesting.

I sometimes forget that "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is the greatest record ever made...until I hear it again.

In the first weekend of March 1970, I was in Harrison, New York, visiting a girl named Lea who I met on the boardwalk in Atlantic City the previous August. She was 17, in her senior year at Harrison High, and I was 21, still in college. You could call it an extended summer romance.

April 8, 2024 to be exact.

Great stuff thanks Fred! the “2024” newspaper article, wow. I was 3 in 1970.

Jackie Gleason is gonna punch yo' momma.

Airport(1970) is a good film. RIP Jean Seberg. Spoofed in Airplane II. Sonny Bono buys a bomb in a gift shop.

Michael Wadleigh(Woodstock) directed Wolfen(1981).

believe it or not, these are the "Good Old Days."

I was 9....and have some great memories of 1970

I was born June of 70 and I miss the 70s most of all the time in my life! Thank you Fred!

March 7th 1970 was with my dad on the bed of a pickup junking an old style washing machine as we were dumping it off the back of truck it flipped up caught my jacket and pulled my down onto one of the rusty legs hitting me in the adams apple i couldn't talk for a few days

From what I remember, 1970 was a pretty good year. I was in 6th grade. Just turned 12. Beneath The Planet Of The Apes? Barbra Streisand played her first hooker in a film. Of course I didn't see that until years later.😊
I think 1970 was a pretty great year for film.
I saw "Airport" with my mother in Jackson, Michigan. Fascinated by that film.