Anyone else missing the 70s

[bill5]

"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.

 

[God's Special Angel]

I miss Disco Duck. I was a child though. And I miss being a child during the 70s. I went to a beautiful white church on a hill. And there was a really good children's program and a playground. I actually liked 80s music better overall.

 

[LoveLearnLaugh]

I miss the 70s music is all. A lot of love songs. The music had an innocent quality to it.

 

[LoveLearnLaugh]

I miss the decor too

 

[rainy]

miss the 70 for the music better tv I think..

 

[virtualgirl]

The only thing on that list I like is the music, so I guess I don't really miss much from the 70's.

 

[Bridgit]

I had no worries back then! *sigh*

 

[bill5]

I miss the decor too

Let's not push it. Gold-colored fridges, multi-color shag carpet, etc - pass! I like seeing it for nostalgia, but that's about it.

 

[seekingthepath]

I miss not being "plugged in" 24/7. I miss not having everything available at my fingertips, having to actually wait for things.

Oh yeah, I definitely miss those feathered hairstyles. Lol. By the time I finally got mine perfected we had moved on to spiral perms.

 

[bill5]

I miss not being "plugged in" 24/7. I miss not having everything available at my fingertips, having to actually wait for things.

Wow. Amen. I thought I was the only one who got that that isn't necessarily a good thing. It's nothing less than tragic IMO.

 

[PriscillaKing]

I liked the Bicentennial, "Little House on the Prairie," the handcraft/pioneer/Native American/back-to-the-land revivals. Pretty much everyone I knew in the 1970s was True Green--as I recall!--not Poison or Fluorescent (OK, some people were Sick Green). I miss that.

Pop culture: Michael Landon was alive. Dolly Parton was singing decent songs.

I miss being a kid.

Some things I don't miss: The glass ceiling was real. The colors that look ugly on me were constantly in fashion. I wasn't a healthy kid.

 

[peter222999]

Well sports teams actually had players who cared about the team, not the highest payer. Gas was reasonable,etc
However I would go nuts now without all the technology,use full or not.
I wonder how antique we will seem on say 20 years.

 

[Deliberatetourist]

Well sports teams actually had players who cared about the team, not the highest payer. Gas was reasonable,etc
However I would go nuts now without all the technology,use full or not.
I wonder how antique we will seem on say 20 years.

Gas was reasonable? As I recall under Carter with the oill situation gas got out of control and there was mass carpooling. Gas didn't really get low until the mid 1980's when it got down to 80 cents a gallon.

I really don't remember much about the 70's other than there were innumerable guys walking around who looked like Jesus and people wore clothes that made them look like salvation army babies.

In the 1990's all the kids were bashing the 80's while dressing like people in teh 70's so you could have gotten your share of nostaligia then I guess.

 

[peter222999]

Well at least I have some one here that takes the time to reflect..
Those 80's for me were high school, first loves (ha) Van Halen and Led zep
etc.. However God was no where in sight, and would not be for 15 years.

I realize now that thankfully , while I did not think of him, he had his hand on me or I would have gotten into some real, real, real, messes. I think about that every time these days when I begin to lose hope, or face a terrible worry. Anyhow, there are many things I could never thank hm for.

 

[Javanwarbler]

"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.

Leisure suits! My dad wore those a lot and those just struck me as so distinctive!

 

[Javanwarbler]

"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.

Also Shag carpet, all the oranges, browns and greens, and the fact that Javan tigers were still around! I know I was very young but I still can remember things. And it seems the '70's were the last bit of the 'simple' life before commercialism or mass materialism really took hold in our society. Seems like the 1980's was the start of so much of that or at least when it really took off. Oh and superballs! You know, the clear ones with the "inside" super colorful swirlies! they don't make 'em like they used to! My brother and i both played and collected them as people did with marbles.

 

[Colleen1]

"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.

No...it's the one era I don't miss.

 

[wolfee]

Yeah, I miss being a kid, and I love 70s music. And real proper cassette players, not those funny new-fangled things they make nowadays. Music was REAL back then. And listening to Radio Luxembourg in the dark, and trying to tape things off the radio onto one of those tape recorders with the spools on - it had two speeds and you could tape your voice and then put it on the wrong speed. And listening to Abba and wishing I could be Swedish.
And everything was much easier to work, because things had DIALS on, or handles or buttons, none of this complicated digital stuff, remotes, things you need to program, or things you press which take about 10 seconds to turn something on, or change or eject something.

There are two things I DON'T miss:
1) Disco music
2) School

 

[Colleen1]

Yeah, I miss being a kid, and I love 70s music. And real proper cassette players, not those funny new-fangled things they make nowadays. Music was REAL back then. And listening to Radio Luxembourg in the dark, and trying to tape things off the radio onto one of those tape recorders with the spools on - it had two speeds and you could tape your voice and then put it on the wrong speed. And listening to Abba and wishing I could be Swedish.
And everything was much easier to work, because things had DIALS on, or handles or buttons, none of this complicated digital stuff, things you need to program, or things you press which take about 10 seconds to turn something on, or change or eject something. I always liked going on medium wave after dark, and exploring all these interesting foreign stations, and the interference could make it more interesting.

There are two things I DON'T miss:
1) Disco music
2) School

LOL, uha and bell bottoms, polyester and feathered hair. Those days are gone...

 

[DownMemoryLane]

I so miss the leg room in the front seat of an AMC Pacer.
A guy friend in college had one probably because he had long legs too.