The America We Knew: February 1970

Great video Fred!!! Gotta love The Guess Who 😊

I was 12 ... and loving life ! 😂

Fred 🥰 thank you , James Taylor Album instill have my original Vinyl it Merry Christmas 🎄🎅☃️🎄Cathy

I recall most of these commercials,and l was 7 years old at this point in time.

I was 3 yo at one point this date always good to see what was going on during this time thank you Mr Fred from South Carolina

5months old

You're the best Fred!☺

Ha ha 10 years old, sitting on an old stool that my grandmother used to make out of Campbell Soup cans about 8 feet from the old TV with the rabbit ears dad and his underwear and mom sowing up something mom showing something

Thx fredflix 👍

Wow these are so wonderful Fred thank you so much

Hearing the first song “raindrops keep falling on my head” brought back so many wonderful memories of being a kid in the early ‘70s. I miss being so carefree. Thank you for another awesome video, Fred!

Another Fred-tabulous trip!! What would a seventh graders’ world be without cool cars, the Doors, (wasn’t quite ready for Sabbath yet,) Vincent Price, Vietnam, Ringo, Winstons(that jingle became an earworm all year) and Elvis. Made me what I am today 😝.

Is it just me or did Elvis look high as a kite? Wish I had purchased a copy of that Zabriskie Point soundtrack. Anything with Pink Floyd is good for me. Another masterpiece Fred .👍

Bet you didn't know Caroline Blakiston who was in The Magic Christian later appeared as Mon Mothma, the rebel leader in Return Of The Jedi, did you? 😯

Also, nice Harper's cover...😉

Thanks, FredFlix.

Wow! I'll have to check out Ebony and Life magazines! The Winston commercial is awesome! And that Circus Magazine is very telling.

Great year for this nine year old boy 😁

The last cast member of the mod squad died, Michael Cole, so that was a bittersweet TV guide cover

At ten years old, us kids got pretty good at making a parody of the rain drops song(LOL).
I wonder what Elvis is doing these days, just sayin.......
Thanks for all you do Fred.

Popular Electronics, Popular Mechanics, and Popular Science were my three favorite magazines back then! Another good one Fred, Thanks!

Gosh, The Guess Who and their wonderful LP "Canned Wheat", a present from my then crush. 😊
"Raindrops...", and Burt Bacharach, and the Oscar goes to...
Oh, yeah. And the Winston spot. 🎵🎶🎵
Out of sight, Fred-ssi. 💜🤟

Thank you Fred, for listing Black Sabbath's first album. One of the most important albums in the history of rock music. The first installment of Heavy Metal. This headbanger approves. Frankenstein must be Destroyed is the last good Hammer Frankenstein film. Scream and Scream Again....true schlock. Didn't even get Peter Cushing right in the bumper (which is okay I suppose, since Peter was in it for what, four minutes). Love The Guess Who. Good month Fred. Thanks again.

I was only 7, but Butch Cassidy was the first film I ever saw. Cerberus Theater, Washington DC. It has been one of my top 5 ever since

How appropo. Seeing the TV Guide cover of Clarence Williams III, Peggy Lipton, and Michael Cole from "The Mod Squad". That was one of my favorite TV shows from back then. Today, I found out that Michael Cole has passed away. RIP.

I'm a simple guy. I see a new Fredflix and I instantly click like.

My aunt was born around this time! RIP Auntie ❤

These bizarre "men's" magazines-were they porn or what? Every time I see one, I imagine some pervo out behind his garage. Ah, the 70s.

This brings back memories for me,,i was 11 years old and in the sixth grade,,i was in the choir too,,and we sang raindrops are falling on my head too.,such a good era back then too,,thank you its a good video..😂❤❤❤

Must be Orson Welles doing the voiceover on the trailer for Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. A nice step up from doing voiceovers on ads for frozen peas, and "Ahhhhh the frensh..." (Yeah I know, the Paul Masson ads were long after that trailer. I had the joke ready and I did it.)

I remember George Carlin's line about that Winston jingle: "...Me and my Winstons, we got a real good thing! What are they doing with those cigarettes? Half the pack is gone and they haven't even lit one up yet...they're putting them somewhere, by God..."

Thanks Fred!

Those who thought 1970 was a good year must not have been old enough to remember or heard about: Kent State Univ. massacre, Vietnam War peak, racial problems, and start of another economic recession. But don't all that stop you (children then) in your blissful ignorance how bad it was for adults; and the 250+ dying in Vietnam every single week!

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Nice one again thnx.

I was 2 yrs. old! I always jot down the movies that look interesting to me from these vids Fred so I can watch them later, especially the cheesy horror flicks which I usually love 😅 “No Time”, such a poignant song that’s still relevant today.

I was 9 going on 10.

I just turned a year two months earlier.

Good video thank you

Excellent, Fred. I distinctly remember “Raindrops Keep Fallon’ On My Head” being all over radio and humming it.

Peter Cushing is tremendous in “Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed.” Amazing such a gentle, classy man could play a character so evil. I read he was very disturbed by some of what the script called for and apologized to Veronica Carlson. Now THAT’S a gentleman!

Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee were quite a team! (both in the twilight of their careers by that time) My high school used to show us movies. I think that "Frankenstein" sequel was one of them.

Fred - your "The America we Knew" series is a boomer's delight - even for this Canadian Boomer. We grew up on all the same stuff. Your curated pop culture artifacts are nothing short of amazing. Please keep up the great work!

I miss the TV guide. Mom or dad bought every week

I was seven in February 1970, less than five months later , my life would change drastically and follow a path that I could never have anticipated that February.

So weird to see Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix on a magazine speculating about who would survive the 70s. So interesting to compare this with the September 1955 video. Thanks Fred.

You talk about confusion, I was 10 and at my school we had sit-ins against the Vietnam war, but I was in awe of my uncle who piloted an F4 Phantom there, these were our soldiers at war. I'm still a confused person, just older. God bless America 🇺🇸

I was 7 then. I really miss magazines, newspapers, the small owner operated businesses,, the automobiles were the people inside could easily be seen and the way people dressed up. Having dyslexia comic books were easiest to read and fun.
HO electric trains and HO slot cars, the electric football game that vibrated.
I think I was around 5 when some kids put me on a bicycle and pushed me down a big hill.
After the first time the hill changed in to a soft slope. It was a 3 speed step threw.
Cars had some real nice paint jobs. Remember the candy apple red? The paint looked several inches deep. And the way people drove, slowly, waving at people on porches. People walking to grocery stores. The way schools were smaller and meals were cooked by lunch ladies.
Learning to write in cursive. I don't think they teach it anymore.
Watching the moon missions with the moon buggy. And Tang with the rubber band moon buggy on top. And the Tang container that when heated in the oven changed it to the splash down capsule.

I was part of a teens quartet singing group called the Four Teens, and we sang Raindrops, complete with an umbrella prop.