Another ride back in time......The 70's..........

[Eggs4Sale]

Reruns of the Monkees,

 

[lngrid]

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.

 

[Junkmanme]

I remember "working my arse off" and still having a LOT of FUN! (Tom T. Hall music, etc.)

 

[lngrid]

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.

 

[Lunachick]

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WOW! It all stands out, but what sticks out in my mind the most is Little Big Man with Dustin Hoffman, and Watership Down. You covered a lot!

 

[Feathered Wings]

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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"

 

[shawnkfl]

sha-na-na

still can't gat that out of my head!

 

[onthespot]

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!

 

[savingdogs]

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!

 

[Eggs4Sale]

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It's still like that here. Sure we have the direct deposit, but there's still a huge line at the bank on Fridays. Nobody else? Just me?