Another ride back in time......The 70's..........
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I was born in 1961. What about:
Culture:
The Beatles breaking up
Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison: all dead within 13 months, all died alone, all of drug overdoses. Kept me away from drugs for life.
Michael Jackson when he still had all his parts, including his sanity
Movies: American Grafitti, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Little Big Man, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Roots, Born Free, Bless the Beasts and the Children
Television: Little House on The Prairie, The Waltons, All in the Family, Wait Til Your Father Gets Home, Laugh-in The Donny and Marie Show, The Carrol Burnett Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, That Girl, The Flying Nun, The Wide World of Disney, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
Music: Tony Orlando and Dawn
Sammy Davis Jr. singing The Candyman(also
), Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Eagles, Bread, Jim Croce, Chicago (and their endless albums
), Stevie Wonder
Remember Disco Duck ? Even my cat hated it! I was truly traumatized by the seventies.
Remember the ORIGINAL smileys?
People sewing U.S. flag patches on their butts (Watergate and Vietnam ticked a lot of people off)
The My Lai massacre
Copper bracelets commemorating the MIAs in Vietnam
Anti-war protests
the Kent State Massacre (the seventies were traumatic for kiddies paying attention!)
World Trade Center being built
TransAmerica Pyramid being built
Helicopters lifting off of the roof of the American embassy in Saigon at the U.S. pullout
Vietnamese boatpeople
The overthrow of the Shah of Iran
The Ayatollah Khomeini
The takeover of the U.S. ebmassy in Teheran by islamist students.
The hostage stand-off.
Wham-o toys
Patty Hearst
The Symbionee Liberation Army
Books:
I'm Okay, You're Okay
The Trumpet of the Swan
Roots
Ecotopia
Love Story
The Other
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Watership Down
Jaws
The Silmarillion (YES!)
Gosh. Such a long post. The floodgates just opened and stuff's still pouring out. But the seventies were weird. Too many drugs. hehe.
Culture:
The Beatles breaking up
Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison: all dead within 13 months, all died alone, all of drug overdoses. Kept me away from drugs for life.
Michael Jackson when he still had all his parts, including his sanity
Movies: American Grafitti, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Little Big Man, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Roots, Born Free, Bless the Beasts and the Children
Television: Little House on The Prairie, The Waltons, All in the Family, Wait Til Your Father Gets Home, Laugh-in The Donny and Marie Show, The Carrol Burnett Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, That Girl, The Flying Nun, The Wide World of Disney, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
Music: Tony Orlando and Dawn
Remember Disco Duck ? Even my cat hated it! I was truly traumatized by the seventies.
Remember the ORIGINAL smileys?
People sewing U.S. flag patches on their butts (Watergate and Vietnam ticked a lot of people off)
The My Lai massacre
Copper bracelets commemorating the MIAs in Vietnam
Anti-war protests
the Kent State Massacre (the seventies were traumatic for kiddies paying attention!)
World Trade Center being built
TransAmerica Pyramid being built
Helicopters lifting off of the roof of the American embassy in Saigon at the U.S. pullout
Vietnamese boatpeople
The overthrow of the Shah of Iran
The Ayatollah Khomeini
The takeover of the U.S. ebmassy in Teheran by islamist students.
The hostage stand-off.
Wham-o toys
Patty Hearst
The Symbionee Liberation Army
Books:
I'm Okay, You're Okay
The Trumpet of the Swan
Roots
Ecotopia
Love Story
The Other
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Watership Down
Jaws
The Silmarillion (YES!)
Gosh. Such a long post. The floodgates just opened and stuff's still pouring out. But the seventies were weird. Too many drugs. hehe.
I remember "working my arse off" and still having a LOT of FUN! (Tom T. Hall music, etc.)
How could I forget?
Huey Newton
Bobby Seale
Eldridge Cleaver
Angela Davis
Defectors from the Soviet Union like
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Okay Okay. I'll stop.
Huey Newton
Bobby Seale
Eldridge Cleaver
Angela Davis
Defectors from the Soviet Union like
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Okay Okay. I'll stop.
Quote:
No man it was a Chevy Van with the shag carpet in the back and speakers in the corners.
Wearing bell bottom hip hugger blue jeans with platform shoes and tube tops just hangin with the guys not really doing anything but smokin cigarette's and lookin cool.
My cousin got a baby alive it was gross and i had the room of all rooms Black light and disco lights with a big stereo and 8 tracks and records and the walls covered in posters and pages from mad magazine and the smell of incense.
I loved Jack Wild and Tony Defranco and Andy Gibb but the lead singer of white snake was "Hot"
No man it was a Chevy Van with the shag carpet in the back and speakers in the corners.
Wearing bell bottom hip hugger blue jeans with platform shoes and tube tops just hangin with the guys not really doing anything but smokin cigarette's and lookin cool.
My cousin got a baby alive it was gross and i had the room of all rooms Black light and disco lights with a big stereo and 8 tracks and records and the walls covered in posters and pages from mad magazine and the smell of incense.
I loved Jack Wild and Tony Defranco and Andy Gibb but the lead singer of white snake was "Hot"
sha-na-na
still can't gat that out of my head!
still can't gat that out of my head!
Keep On Truckin'
Jimmy Carter
Star Wars
Speedo bathingsuits
Where The Red Fern Grows, the book
Bye, Bye Miss American Pie
Watergate
Fondue
Bandanas as a hair accessory
Wallaby Shoes
Midi skirts
Peasant blouses
Gem Twist a show jumper
streaking
The Carpenters
Kent State
Detroit Riots
Apollo 13
Endless Summer
Wilt Chamberlain
"frosting" you hair yuk!
Jimmy Carter
Star Wars
Speedo bathingsuits
Where The Red Fern Grows, the book
Bye, Bye Miss American Pie
Watergate
Fondue
Bandanas as a hair accessory
Wallaby Shoes
Midi skirts
Peasant blouses
Gem Twist a show jumper
streaking
The Carpenters
Kent State
Detroit Riots
Apollo 13
Endless Summer
Wilt Chamberlain
"frosting" you hair yuk!
Rhiannan rings like a bell through the night and wouldn't you love to love her?
I became a young adult in the 70s living in Los Angeles. I remember it as a time when the people around me were happy and it was not hard to achieve.
We considered ourselves wiser than the drug addicted 60s crowd but we still kept some of their freedoms and open minded ways. What I thought was cool were rainbows, volkswagen beetles, sneaking my dog onto the beach and listening to FM radio!
My crowd thought Disco was a sell out although we liked it when it was just KC and the Sunshine boys and the Bee Gees. But when they called it Disco and started to hustle, my group was out of town!
I remember Stairway to Heaven being the number one song on the radio countdowns every year.
I unfortunately also remember having to rush to the bank on payday so I could cash my paycheck and get money for the weekend. Everyone else was doing the same thing so there was a tremendous line each payday. If you didn't cash your check (and you had to go inside!) you might not have money unless you could get a store to "cash a check" for you. I thought 500.00 per month was a lot of money to pay for rent for a beach house, isn't that a laugh?
I'm surprised no one has mentioned That 70's Show. I thought it captured the decade great!
I became a young adult in the 70s living in Los Angeles. I remember it as a time when the people around me were happy and it was not hard to achieve.
We considered ourselves wiser than the drug addicted 60s crowd but we still kept some of their freedoms and open minded ways. What I thought was cool were rainbows, volkswagen beetles, sneaking my dog onto the beach and listening to FM radio!
My crowd thought Disco was a sell out although we liked it when it was just KC and the Sunshine boys and the Bee Gees. But when they called it Disco and started to hustle, my group was out of town!
I remember Stairway to Heaven being the number one song on the radio countdowns every year.
I unfortunately also remember having to rush to the bank on payday so I could cash my paycheck and get money for the weekend. Everyone else was doing the same thing so there was a tremendous line each payday. If you didn't cash your check (and you had to go inside!) you might not have money unless you could get a store to "cash a check" for you. I thought 500.00 per month was a lot of money to pay for rent for a beach house, isn't that a laugh?
I'm surprised no one has mentioned That 70's Show. I thought it captured the decade great!
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