The best things about the 70s revealed

“From a kid into teens perspective: The music, rock, dance/disco, easy listening, crooner, etc. The food at fast food restaurants was great and similar to what you’d make at home,” one user said.

“It was fun to be out and about as a kid all day with little concern for safety from any ‘bad people’. Weirdly I recall a warm golden hue to most things; lights, air, beaches, forests, mountains.”

“Hope,” another simply stated.

“There was a strong middle class and buying a house was the norm. Employers paid for most part of your health care. Factory jobs paid well and fought for employees offering better pay and better benefits.

“Parents felt safe letting their children play outside and ride their bikes or walk to their friends house across town.”

Others reminisced about a simpler way of life, where large buildings didn’t obstruct nature’s beauty and socialising come naturally.

“I remember friends or friends taking us to this AMAZING swimming hole deep in the woods somewhere. Nobody else was there, no infrastructure, no concrete, no paint, just raw nature,” someone said.

“The only thing there to make you think it wasn’t 10,000 years ago, were etchings in rocks of initials and a year, and they went back to the 1920’s. It was the true authentic swimming hole like you read about in a Mark Twain story.

“And big field parties where everybody would park their cars, tune the radio to WMMS 101, and open their trunks. Everybody was blasting the same incredible music when classic rock was at its absolute peak. Frisbees were everywhere.

“I doubt swimming holes like that exist any more.”