Anyone else missing the 70s

[wolfee]

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[wolfee]

HEEELP-

These 2 posts went funny and I tried to delete them but I couldn't

 

[Biblefreak]

KISS

Mellow Yellow (in a glass bottle)

Star Wars

Jaws

Close encounters of the third kind

Marathon bars

Baseball cards in bike spokes

Good times!

 

[Partiasn]

I don’t miss the 70's
I do miss the the 80's
I regret the fact the the 80's panned out to be the 90's, and the 90's panned out to be the 2000's

And what lies ahead may be even worse.

 

[Bridgit]

I miss the pants

 

[SadieInTheSand]

YES YES YES!!!
Best era ever for music.

And let's not forget.....

Shields and Yarnell

Light Bright makin thinnnngs with liiiiiiight....

The Sonny and Cher Show

Wolfman Jack

Stretch Armstrong!

Evil Knievel

"You Sank My Battleship"

That sound the Six Million Dollar Man makes when he jumps....

 

[pgp_protector]

Nope. Not really.
Then again I didn't really enjoy Elementary - Jr High School

 

[SadieInTheSand]

Nope. Not really.
Then again I didn't really enjoy Elementary - Jr High School

Come on.... not even the candy?

 

[pgp_protector]

Come on.... not even the candy?

The candy I liked then, I can still get now, so don't have to miss it

 

[SadieInTheSand]

Hmmmm........ok then what about.....

Smashup derby?

They don't do that anymore.

 

[pgp_protector]

Hmmmm........ok then what about.....

Smashup derby?

They don't do that anymore.

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[nhisname]

I miss the decor too

Brady Bunch Orange and Green.......oh and the shag carpeting...

 

[Publius]

"classic" rock, in all its many creative forms

The 70s was a much maligned time for music. To paraphrase one of my favorite bands, the Tremeloes, even the bad songs were good.

To this day, whenever I break out my guitar, my sister will ask me to sing "Shannon".

Let's face it, "I Think I Love You" and "Heartbeat (It's a Lovebeat)" are just awful, awful songs, but they're a lot of fun to sing.

I remember getting a crash course in music in the 70's because my sister's boyfriend managed a record store and would give me stacks and stacks of records so I'd say good things about him to my sister. It must have worked because they're married now and I've got the biggest record collection on the block.

"Have a Nice Day" smiley face
"Keep on Truckin" t-shirts

I had the whole R. Crumb collection.

silk print shirts (with wide lapels of course)

My dad, who I like to call "The Hillbilly Don Draper" got way out of hand with the crazy shirts.

bell bottom blues

Especially when they got caught in your bicycle chain.

8 track tapes

Still got 'em.

"Lasarium" shows (oooh lasers, how high tech)

I went to school for a little while in Barrington, NJ. Right behind our school was a place called Edmund Scientific. It no longer exists now, but is still alive online. They had a little "planetarium" there and, every day, we'd take our lunches over there and sit and watch the light show. Looking back on it, it was really cheesy and dumb, but it was high tech and state of the art at the time.

sports that WEREN'T highly organized

This is sad, but not long ago, I actually had to show a group of children how to play hide and seek.

transistor radios

I had one that went on the handlebars of my bike. All I remember is that it was orange and I loved it. I'd give anything to have one now.

I think what I miss most about the 70's was the general carefree-ness of it all. There was no government nanny telling you you had to wear a helmet to do God knows what, no campaign to convince you that words were politically incorrect, and if your baseball team sucked, then you went home without a trophy and tried harder next time.

I think I miss my own innocence, too. Hearing grownups talk and having no clue why they would look at us kids to see if we could hear before they said something to one another, or finding my dad's collection of Redd Foxx records and wondering what all those words meant. Or, for that matter, repeating all of those words in front of my grandmother's Sunday School class and finding out the hard way what all those words meant.

It isn't the big things I miss as much as it is the things that seemed so insignificant.

 

[Csara]

What I really liked about the 70's is the music like "Dancing Queen" People here still play 70's music at "Back in Times" parties. It's a blast. I remember Cigarette candies, but I had forgotten pet rocks. I never had one. We had dogs All I really remember from the 70's was going to school and my brother being really little and following me around. By the time I hit high school, it was already the 80's. I guess one thing I remember is that as children we played a lot out doors with our cousins and climbed fruit trees. We really had fun at our grandma's house

 

[Csara]

What I really liked about the 70's is the music like "Dancing Queen" People here still play 70's music at "Back in Times" parties. It's a blast. I remember Cigarette candies, but I had forgotten pet rocks. I never had one. We had dogs All I really remember from the 70's was going to school and my brother being really little and following me around. By the time I hit high school, it was already the 80's. I guess one thing I remember is that as children we played a lot out doors with our cousins and climbed fruit trees. We really had fun at our grandma's house

 

[Csara]

What I really liked about the 70's is the music like "Dancing Queen" People here still play 70's music at "Back in Times" parties. It's a blast. I remember Cigarette candies, but I had forgotten pet rocks. I never had one. We had dogs All I really remember from the 70's was going to school and my brother being really little and following me around. By the time I hit high school, it was already the 80's. I guess one thing I remember is that as children we played a lot out doors with our cousins and climbed fruit trees. We really had fun at our grandma's house

Oh, and I forgot Barbie dolls, I guess Barbie has been around forever, and Sindy dolls.

 

[BlueWildflower]

I miss everything about the 70's. I was a child then (I turned 13 in 1980), and I miss the carefree and innocense of it all. I love the music. My username is partially a tribute to the 70's. The song "Wildflower" by Skylark is my all time favorite song. Life was so much easier back then. I would give anything to be able to turn back the clock.

 

[country woman]

playing outside in the winter or summer

 

[nick garai]

I miss...

Star Wars Toys
Innocence
Care-free childhood
No computers
No internet
Arcade games
Shag carpets
ABBA
My sister's girlfriends (LOL)

 

[Steve Petersen]

"classic" rock, in all its many creative forms
disco (hated it then, love it now - and sadly it compares very well to much of the drek spewed out by radio stations today)
pet rocks
"Have a Nice Day" smiley face
"Keep on Truckin" t-shirts
silk print shirts (with wide lapels of course)
wide ties
bell bottom blues
platform shoes
Pop Rocks
Tang
Bubble Yum
Candy shaped like cigarettes
shows like Happy Days, Brady Bunch, The Waltons, and other wholesome (gasp) shows which would never get off the ground now
Loony Tunes and a zillion other cartoons on Sat mornings
AMC Pacers and Gremlins (the ugliest car ever lol)
8 track tapes
"Lasarium" shows (oooh lasers, how high tech)
building plastic model cars planes etc
"caps" (with play guns that didn't have to have an orange tip)
sports that WEREN'T highly organized
transistor radios
mood rings
lava lamps
feathered hair styles
The orig SNL show

Man I miss those times.

You can have it.

Gimme Miami Vice