Hey you knew it was coming (anybody wants to do 20 things you love about the 60's go for it). You don't have to be born in the 70's to love stuff from it so feel free to join in.

In no real order

1. Cat Stevens

2. KISS

3. 70's Steelers

4. Space 1999

5. Battlestar Galactica

6. Buck Rogers

7. Logan's Run

8. Living in Japan for a year

9. Atari

10. Elementary School days

11. Alien

12. Battle of the Network stars

13. Rita Coolidge

14. The Superfriends and Saturday Morning live shows Arc 2/ Space Academy/ Shazam/ Isis and all the others

15. Elton Johns music from the 70's

Welcome Back Kotter

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The best naked men in the history of naked men. They were hairy from head to toe. Hairy dicks, hairy balls, hairy chests, hairy arms, hairy legs,....hair, hair, and more hair! And men in their 30s and 40s were considered more sexy than men in their 20s. It was the era of the real manly man and the bitch boys were out.

The thrill of finding a dirty magazine and thumbing through all those pages of naked women but only finding one naked man and from the sight of that one little picture, getting a raging erection at a very young age.

The best time in the history of music, the disco era.

Funk.

The Saturday morning cartoons such as Fat Albert, Scooby and Scrappy Do, The Flintstones/Captain Caveman Hour, The Yogi Bear and Friends Show, The Loony Tunes Hour, and also the Saturday morning shows that weren't cartoons such as Isis, Captain Marvel, Wonderbug, and Electro Woman and Dyna Girl.

The best TV shows ranging from action, to drama, to sitcoms, to music....All In The Family, The Jeffersons, Good Times, One Day At A Time, Welcome Back Kotter, Wonder Woman, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Charlie's Angels, CHIPS, Police Woman, Starsky and Hutch, Soul Train, American Bandstand, The Midnight Special, and lots lots more. TV galore!

The toys.....Slinkies, Connect Four, Monopoly, Hot Wheels Racetracks, Big Wheels, Bionic Woman, Six Million Dollar Man, and Wonder Woman action figures, Snoopy radios, Snoopy record players, ....even something as simple as getting a 64 pack of Crayola crayons and lining them up in rows on the floor and playing "school" with them.

1. double dutch

2. skelly

3. red light, green light 123

4. the robot dance

5. the hustle dance

6. disco

7. Jackson 5

8. no responsibilities

9. better furniture for less

10.watching Good Times, Charlie's Angels, S.W.A.T., and Wonderama

11.my grandmother wasn't dead

12.the family was very close

13.middle school

14.went to Coney Island

15.the community was very close

The safety and security of my mother's womb.

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

bell bottom pants and fringed vests. peace signs

1. Flares

2. Afros

3. Leo Sayer type perms

4. The Muppets

5. That wah wah bass you hear in disco and funk recordings

6. Blaxploitation movies

7. DISCO BABY!!!!!!

8. The album Prince

9. 70s gay lib

10. 70's cars

11. Being born in 1976

12. Bee Gees

13. Rolling Stones

14. My cookie bear (Toy)

15. Me in the 70s

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So cute, I was about 2 or 3 at the time

1. Bay City Rollers

2. My BCR outfits

3. David Bowie

4. Motown

5. Blondie

6. dancing in the back of my dad's custom van without having to be in a child restraint

7. American Bandstand

8. Riding my bike til dark

9. Rehoboth Beach boardwalk & rides

10. County fairs

11. 8 track tapes

12. good radio stations

13. roller rinks

14. cool friends

15. fried bologne sandwiches

1. Summer trips to FL with my parents.

2. Jumping double dutch with my friends.

3. Going to concerts with my mom and my older brother -- Bill Withers, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, The Jacksons, The Doobie Brothers, The Isley Brothers etc. ( Late 70's).

4. Free summer jazz concerts with my family. List of name too many to name.

5. Playing with all the kids on 18 Banfield Lane, Bloomfield CT we had a blast!!

6. My youth and innocence.

7. My mother's strength and fashion fabulosity--thought she would be that way for ever and never age. And the lady was a 70's DIVA and I'm lucky to that the Polariod's to prove it!

8. My dad's invincibility and strength he was/is my hero and I never thought he would die.

9. My grandma's flapjacks and cooking in general. She was da bomb and gave me my pallette.

10. Family reunions they were the best in the 70's ans 80's for me!

Wait this may be added to the 80's thread too for some of the concerts LOL... Oh well

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...

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...

You can make a long list of bad things for every decade. IMO the 2000's and beyond is more harsh and darker than the 70's ever were.

kpowers said:

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...

You can make a long list of bad things for every decade. IMO the 2000's and beyond is more harsh and darker than the 70's ever were.

well, the 70's had the Neal Adams version of Batman, that was a good thing too

1. Knitted sweater vests.

2. Parliament & Funkadelic.

3. Have the two Lee's as my heroes: Bruce Lee & Muhammad A-Lee.

4. Le Freaking while Le Chicing.

5. Watching hairy snatch porn in the garage with a projector & a white bed sheet tacked onto the wall.

6. Having my clothes feel so clean & fresh from the dry cleaners as a result of the proprietor's ancient chinese secrets.

7. Playground injuries such as burning skids from the sun-heated steel slide, concussions from falling off the monkeys bars onto the concrete base & crushed lower spines from having your seesaw partner jump off his/her end.

8. Being able to rock a porn 'stache.

9. Nunchakus & deadly metal tipped lawn darts.

10. Lucha Libre masks.

11. Orange Push-Ups from the ice cream man.

12. Being able to say "Orange Push-Ups from the ice cream man" without it sounding perverse.

13. Go, Speed Racer, GO!!

14. Endless tastes great/less filling debates. (Actually, for this entry I was gonna put "White people adopting black kids who suffer from stunted growth a la Diff'rent Strokes & Webster", but I think that might've been more of an early 80's thing).

15. Watching creepy ass movies on TV like "Trilogy Of Terror" or "The Baby".

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JoeTyler said:

kpowers said:

You can make a long list of bad things for every decade. IMO the 2000's and beyond is more harsh and darker than the 70's ever were.

well, the 70's had the Neal Adams version of Batman, that was a good thing too

1. Home movies on 8mm.

2. Bell bottom jeans.

3. Long hair boys.

4. Muscle cars.

5. Driving out to the desert and sleeping under the stars.

6. Philisophical talks with my uncle.

7. Mork and Mindy.

8. Hitch hiking up the coast.

9. Getting high on cheap weed.

10. Riding dirt bikes.

11. Riding our horses on the beach.

12. Skiping school......a lot. The beach was like right there.

13. Surfer dudes

14. Campfires on the beach.

15. Skinny dipping in the ocean.

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

1.GLAM ROCK

2.GLAM ROCK

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13.GLAM ROCK

14.GLAM ROCK.

15.DAVID BOWIE.

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ufoclub said:

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

I was in love with him as a kid

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Yes to all of the above

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please feel free to put your name in one of the 15 spots

In no particular order:

1. Amazing music (I'm not going to get any more specific - there was so much good stuff)

2. McDonald's still cooked their fries in beef tallow - and blended their milk shakes individually.

3. Pepsi Light (Basically Diet Pepsi with lemon flavor - they haven't gotten it right since)

4. Yves Saint Laurent's Russian collection in 1976

5. Diane Von Furstenberg's iconic wrap dress

6. The Waltons (Corny as it seems now, it was an amazing show. I mean...the first five seasons were really well written. I still watch it in reruns.)

7. Coming home absolutely starving after gymnastics or cheerleading or play rehearsal, walking in the door - and smelling whatever amazing goodness my mom had made for dinner. (I wish someone would cook for me now. )

8. Going to Disney World in Florida right after it opened - and getting Grandma to go on Space Mountain with us.

9. Modesty (The most revealing clothing was a midriff or halter top - and it was never worn by people who were too old or too young for it to be appropriate.)

10. Charles of the Ritz perfume (My first "designer" fragrance. It had a really wonderful, "powdery" quality to it that was just yummy.)

11. This Chanel ad:

12. Big honkin' cars. Not SUVs - cars.

13. It was before the advent of governmental "low fat, high carb" propaganda. Which meant almost nobody was fat.

14. Beer cans still had pull tabs.

15. A very special Oscar de la Renta dress

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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 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

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I had one of those!!!!!

Also;

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OldFriends4Sale said:

ufoclub said:

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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 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!

MUSIC--(counts as 1) Jim Morrison...Steppenwolf/John Kay, Parliament, Janis, Jimi, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Skylark, Slave, Cameo, the Bar-Kays, Zapp, The Jackson 5, Pink Floyd. DISCO

My hippie/designer/disco style and my homemade designs

Soul Train (more fun to watch when you knew your ass would get whupped if you got caught)

Love Story & Romeo & Juliet-with Olivia Hussey (I was a hopeless romantic)

Starskey & Hutch

Dark Shadows

the dances...the bump, the hustle

My tube tops (when my breasts were pert and went up instead of down)

Being able to lay in the sun for hours and not worry about skin cancer

Long hair on men

the Myrtle Beach pavilion which sadly closed in 2006 I spent many summers there.

Living on a 180 acre farm and having all the fresh fruits and veggies I could possible eat. No Monsanto...no pesticides, no genetic tampering...just plain old stuff from the earth. Sadly, my mother let the farm and house go to hell.

My divorce was final...

The Mod Squad (I tried to be Julie)

Watching Rowan & Martin and thinking that was the most risque thing I'd ever seen. Goldie all painted up in that bikini dancing was so shocking but I loved it! How times have changed.

Ahhh...the past...such wonders live there.

Genesia said:

11. This Chanel ad:

You know who directed that Chanel ad don't you?