ufoclub said:

15 things wouldn't be enough...I loved everything about the 70's and that time of my life. I was a kid growing up in the 70's, born 1971!

Visionnaire said:

ufoclub said:

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A rainbow armband & a robot sidekick with a penis-shaped head?
Did Wilma ever stand a chance?

My first honest to goodness crush was Buck Rogers...before I knew what gay was. I had his trading card on my bedroom mirror. my friends just thought I was a fan of the tv show...little did they know...and really little did I know...

I was born in 1970 so this was MY era...so much to love from this era...

staying outside until my mom rang the bell on our patio which meant time for lunch/dinner/and to come in for the night.

ghost in the graveyard

Going to the penny candy store with 25 cents and ending up with a full bag of candy.

Push Ups

The town record store which was also a blue jean store.

The Jackson 5

The Partridge Family

The Brady Bunch

The Bicenntenial and seeing Red White and Blue EVERYWHERE

Jaws

Mr Jaws

Star Wars

Dukes of Hazzard

45s

K-Tel Records (Today's Super Greats! High Energy! LOL)

Big Wheels

Hot Wheels

Weebles

Ronco

White belts

The Carpenters

Olivia Newton John

John Travolta

Grease

Welcome Back Kotter

Stevie Wonder (my sister made me learn all the words to Sir Duke...locked me in the basement until I could sing the whole song without the record playing...but still love the song)

ufoclub said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

I picture is definately worth a thousand words

Even when people were bad in the 1970's (outside of the rise of the serial killer) everything still seemed so innocent

1.)Watching Fantasy Island

2.) James(correction Roger) Moore James Bond of the 1970's. It was always a thrill watching those, parents really love James Bond movies

3.) Parents disco house parties

4.) Carrolls fast food

You mean Roger Moore!

oops, I don't know who I was thinking off

I was born in the 70's and remember quite a bit about the late part of the decade.

TV!!! The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Wonder Woman, Charlie's Angels, Mork & Mindy, SNL, Superfriends, Electric Company, The Letter People, Salem's Lot.

Music: Disco

Movies: Jaws, Taxi Driver, Star Wars, Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Alien, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, The Exorcist, The Amityville Horror, Foxy Brown, Coffy, Shivers.

Pop Rocks, Malls, Mylar Baloons, strobe lights, Play-Doh, Ford Pinto, Hustler Magazine, etc. Simon, UNO.

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Electric Company: 1,2,3 song = "Tambourine" by Prince.

Wouldn't this be a great style video for Tambourine, but with darker colors and glows?

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ufoclub said:

Electric Company: 1,2,3 song = "Tambourine" by Prince.

Wouldn't this be a great style video for Tambourine, but with darker colors and glows?

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The family guy version was pretty funny too (Stewie in the pastic globe)

Just to name a few...

A mountain of tv show

Bugles, pop rocks, drumstick ice cream cones, and all those treats that seem to taste so different now.

Sitting with my aunt watching the stories

singing those stupid songs on the school bus

learning swahili

having all those homemade go cart races up and down the street

talking to my boyfriend from our windows next door at night

my dog budget, he was the best dog I ever had

all those damned skits me and my friends would make up and torture our parents into watching

my drawings

hanging out at the library that use to be down the street

making my poison bean necklaces, they were pretty, and all my friends on my street got one.

eating those berries and "african apples" back and forth from school

the neighborhood kids

the guy that lived behind us, who'd stand out on his back porch and sing "Reasons", cause the acoustics were so good.

dammit, how could I forget. my discovery of prince.

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KingBAD said:

1. jetsettin

2. bein 15-20 years old

3. the after hours joints

4. THC (synthetic weed)

5. strawberry cocaine ( chi towners know)

6. RICHARD NIXON

7. DISCOTEQUES

8. THE ISLEYs

9. MARIO PUZZO's books

10. stacked heels

11. english cut suits

12. BOSS OUTFITS

13. BRITANIA JEAN SUITS

14 AVERAGE WHITE BAND/ WILD CHERRY

15. FT. LAUDERDALE bullethead truinols and qualudes

You liked Tricky Dick?

Are you serious?

What did you like about him?

JoeTyler said:

I was born in the 80's

but here are the only things of the 70's I miss about the 70's

a) 70's rock

b) 70's funk

c) men using cuban heels and beautiful (not stiff/predictable) suits

d) Woody Allen's early weird/madcap/brainy comedies (69-77), before he became a bad copy of Bergman/Capra...

e) sports stars being stars due to their successes and dedication, not because of their money/publicity contracts...

that's all

since I don't have personal/sweet/subjective memories of that decade, I have to say that I see the 70's as a very harsh/dark decade (no offense): Nixon's betrayal, Carter's innoperance, Brezhnev posing as a good guy and the world believing the farce, the fall of Saigon, Vietnam veterans being ignored, Roger Moore as 007 James Bond, street crime, rich pimps, granny cinematography, generalized drug-abuse (a legacy of the 60's), the fat/depressed/pseudo-republican Elvis, downbeat vigilante movies, a truckload of nihilistic/cheap Hollywood films posing as "high art", bad economy, ugly flat cars, a shitload of know-it-all/I-feel-so-blue singer-songwriters, many people dancing way too much without giving a damn about anything else, etc. ugh...

For someone who was born in the 80s you sure do know a lot about the 70s.

They might´ve been harsh and dark in the USA (bad economy, high crime rate especially in NYC, bad cars around the second half of that decade).....but, to be honest, I remember them as a good time, at least over here.

The things I didn´t like were personal things, rarely political stuff or the economy. Then again, I was just a kid.

Do you dislike Woody Allen´s latest movies? Including Matchpoint and Vicky, Cristina Barcelona?

in no particular order..

1) Saturday Night Fever

2) Rocky

3) Star Wars

4) TV Sitcoms

5) The Bee Gees

6) The Jacksons

7) Pinball Machines

8) KISS

9) P-Funk

10) candy necklaces

11) A.M. Radio

12) The Steelers

13) N.Y.C

14) Prince's 2nd record.

15) music magazines.

..and I had to throw this one in..the clothes.

KoolEaze said:

KingBAD said:

1. jetsettin

2. bein 15-20 years old

3. the after hours joints

4. THC (synthetic weed)

5. strawberry cocaine ( chi towners know)

6. RICHARD NIXON

7. DISCOTEQUES

8. THE ISLEYs

9. MARIO PUZZO's books

10. stacked heels

11. english cut suits

12. BOSS OUTFITS

13. BRITANIA JEAN SUITS

14 AVERAGE WHITE BAND/ WILD CHERRY

15. FT. LAUDERDALE bullethead truinols and qualudes

You liked Tricky Dick?

Are you serious?

What did you like about him?

dude,

while tricky was in, people were stuffin money everywhere.

it was like findin cocaine and weed on florida shores back then

In no particular order.

The TV Shows and Cartoons. Especially Creature Feature (with Bob Wilkins),

The Streets of San Francisco, The Brady Bunch,The After School Specials, Romper Room, Shazam, The Secret of ISIS,The Super Friends,The Kroft Super Show, (Especially Electra Woman and Dyna Girl), Scooby Doo, Hr puff n Stuff, Sigmund and the Sea Monster, Land of the Lost, Saturday Night Live, Soul Train, Good Times, Happy Days and Ultra-Man.

Going to free concerts at Golden Gate Park.

Being amazed by the counter culture freaks in San Francisco.

Beautiful, Classy black women.

Beautiful, classy white women

The music. Especially Funk, Rock, Soul and Blues bands.

The unity amongst African Americans(Black is Beautiful movement).

The Socio-political movements of the time.

The wild ass clothes.

Having Big wheel races in the projects.

The movies. Expecially the Blaxploitation ones.

Spending time at Ocean Beach,and going on fishing trips with my mother and father.

Being aware of having strong feelings for a person of the oposite sex for the first time. I was about 7 years old.

The overall feeling that the world was a magical, exciting place.