Share a memory you have of the 70s.

[Jara sang]

That is if you were around in the Seventies. I remember sitting in my cousins room surrounded by K.I.S.S. posters playing the video game Pong.

[Left Is Write]

1. I remember seeing Pong for the first time at the general store

near my uncle's vacation property in Northern Minnesota. We'd go in there to hang out and play pinball, and one summer they got a Pong machine. We thought it was pretty cool.

Here's a random 70s memory: Bicentennial minutes on television.

[hfojvt]

12. what about the "Shell answer man"?

What ever happened to that guy?
I also remember seeing Nadia doing the parallel bars to the theme to "The Young and the Restless" which became known thereafter as "Nadia's Theme" and Bjorn Borg winning a whole bunch of Wimbledon titles.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

62. The Shell Answer Man?

Someone asked him about Peak Oil and his head exploded. That's my theory, anyway.

[henslee]

105. You just reminded me of another comm.l for gas with a crusty unshaven

bum that was always showing up on the side of the road hitchiking and leering as he said..."Going my way?" It was for some gas which would get rid of the "knocks" -- engine knocks. It used to creep the shit out of me.

[ikojo]

129. My older sister had Pong and I loved going

over to her house to play it...just two dots going back and forth on a screen...

I remember when her mother in law got an Atari, when we'd go visit her it was a war to see who got to play on the Atari first.

[liberalitch]

2. My parents had a resignation party when nixon resigned.....

My uncle passed out in the front yard...... in his fringe jacket.

[Lubernaut]

92. That is hilarious!

Did this really happen?

[billyskank]

3. I believe I can vaguely remember having my nappy changed

That is all. And if I am deluding myself about that, then nothing.

[GOPisEvil]

4. Listening to "Some Girls" by the Stones with my cousin.

I've been a fan of the 1970s Rolling Stones ever since. My cousin had a kick ass '71 Chevelle, too. :D

[kwassa]

35. Seeing the Rolling Stones on the "Some Girls" tour for a $10 ticket

in the relatively small Masonic Hall in Detroit, first row balcony seat, only about 4,000 seats in the hall.

The Stones did small unannounced concerts on the tour, along with their stadium venues. I got lucky and heard about it.

[Pacifist Patriot]

5. I learned how to dive during the Independence Day weekend...

1976 at Berchtesgaden. My mom was listening to the soundtrack of "1776" while we hung out at the pool at the U.S.A. hotel there. I learned every word to every song before I knew what they meant.

[Shell Beau]

6. I was around but barely. I was born in '78.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

7. I had a pair of really huge

platform shoes I wore and almost broke my ankle in.

I remember getting up at 3 AM to get in the gas line.

I remember thinking John Travolta was hot and sure could dance.

I remember loving Phil and Tara on All My Children.

I remember exams being canceled after we bombed Cambodia and feeling guilty because I was happy.

I remember meeting Romare Bearden in college.

I remember leaving NJ for good and moving to FL and never quite getting over it, and to this day can't listen to "My Hometown" by Bruce Springsteen

I remember CB radios and all the CB lingo, good buddy.

[hfojvt]

16. Breaker one nine, what's your twenty? Over.

We never had a CB so I did not learn much of the lingo. It is strange to me how they went in and out so fast. Or maybe most people learned quickly that it is scary to talk to strangers, and now it is the cell phone with almost unlimited distance.

[DanCa]

8. I still have the original pong in my attic

I also am the same weight i was in high school but you got to add up all the four years :D

[Left_Winger]

9. I had a really cool dress suit

Total reverse: white jacket, pants, shoes and wide-assed tie with a black socks and shirt. Man, I was so bad-ass. Yes, they were bell bottoms, circa 1973.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

10. I was conceived in the 70's.

Circa September 1979.

Not sure if this is what you're looking for though... :hide:

[billyskank]

15. You remember that?

:wow:

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

21. Remember it? I've got it on DVD!

Okay, that thought even made ME sick!
:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[billyskank]

25. Oh man, imagine your parents...

:puke:

[Avalux]

11. Marching in a 1776 parade

I was jsut a kid and wore my Dad's old navy uniform (altered of course) - I thought it was so cool to celebrate the bicentennial.

[Maestro]

98. I was in a school play about the Bicentennial.

I can't remember what I played but I remember doing something patriotic. I also played a lot of baseball in the 70's.

[trackfan]

13. Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. Omigod, I remember that too!

That was the MOST exciting race EVER! Watching that magnificent horse run made all the others look like they were standing still....

I can still shut my eyes, and see his stride......


:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[Awsi Dooger]

80. Well, basically the other horses in the Belmont WERE standing still

There were only four opponents in the Belmont. Sham broke down in the middle of the race and was eased, never to run again. The track was scraped beyond belief, freeway fast. A mediocre horse broke the track record in the race immediately preceeding the Belmont. Eleven of Belmont Park's 14 main track records were broken within one week either way of that race, completely unprecedented, before or since.

Yet, if you apply the one length equals 1/5 of a second rule of thumb, a 31 length margin means none of the other horses broke 2:30. That's ridiculous, on a track that fast. Secretariat ran an amazing race, but the track conditions and the poor quality of the field made both the running time and the margin very misleading.

To verify, Secretariat ran 21 other times and never won by 10 lengths or more.

[TK421]

14. The doctor smacking me on my ass and me pissing on him

[taterguy]

17. Why I hate Republicans

I was six years old. My favorite thing in the world was watching Speed Racer weekday afternoons. Those damned Watergate hearings deprived me of one of my great pleasures. I'm still holding a grudge.

[Giant Robot]

18. Watching Star Wars for the first time

when it was released in its first run. I was 6 at the time. We had gone carpeting shopping for our house, then ate at Big Boy. Then Star Wars. And nothing has been the same since. :)

[Jara sang]

24. I remember that, I even had the soundtrack on vinyl.

[Giant Robot]

83. I think mine is still at my mom's house! n/t

[Dukkha]

51. my most favorite memory

I saw it on opening weekend when I was 7 and my life truly began!

[ikojo]

130. Only a week and a half before Sith

comes out on DVD!!!!

I remember reading about Star Wars and looking forward to seeing it. I think it took awhile for it to come to Springfield IL, but when it did I went as often as my paper route money would allow (13 times)

[Pithlet]

79. That was the first non-kiddie movie my parents took me to.

I was 5.

[nutsnberries]

19. I'll never forget how I saw Nixon's resignation speech...

I was 12 and staying at a beach house with my sister and her husband on Cape Cod.
We had no TV in the beach house but the neighbors did.
The houses were really close with only a narrow walkway in between.
We listened to Nixon on the radio, and watched on the neighbor's TV through the windows.

So many other memories... middle school, high school, the bicentennial hoopla, friends, boyfriends, music... mostly good times. :)

[nutsnberries]

32. just remembered... the Blizzard of '78 complete with

6 days off from school (if i remember correctly) and Governor Dukakis' sweaters at his news conferences.

how much snow was that? a wicked lotta snow...

[Shine]

43. Yeah, I was ten and watched that same speech.....

seems like so long ago....and it was!

:hi:

[knowbody0]

20. stopping freeway traffic into seattle for four hours

in demonstration to stop vietnam war. facing national guard armed with bayonetts. tear gas.
good times

[bertha katzenengel]

22. Playing with Click-Clacks. Riding my Huffy bike. Skateboarding.

Being asked if I wanted to buy 'mary jane.' I was ten at the time.

[spacelady]

67. I still have my clicker clackers! Two GLASS balls on a string with a

washer in the middle that you try to slam together in an up & down motion. Great for dentists if you were unskilled. Kind of like the "Bag O' Broken Glass" Dan Ackroyd advertised when he played the evil toy advocate on SNL but these were REAL toys. Ach, those were the days!

[taterguy]

26. Thanks Thread Starter

For reminding me to listen to the Mike Watt song "Against the 70s," my favorite Eddie Vedder performance.

The kids of today should defend themselves against the 70s. It's not reality, just someone else's sentimentality. It won't work for you. Look what it did to Watt.

[indigo32]

27. I remember

Saterdays at the roller rink, it had a light up disco floor in the middle.

My grade school music teacher knowing exactly when to bump the turntable during the inevitable dance number to "Grease Lightning" in the yearly talent show, all so we didn't have to hear Travolta sing "Shit"

[XemaSab]

28. My mother screaming in pain

when she gave birth to me. :scared:




























:P

[DanCa]

29. coven one tin soldier (nt)

[swag]

108. Yeah, that's the stuff.

And Three Dog Night's "Black and White."

We all insisted on singing those in fifth grade music class.

[Sanity Claws]

30. I had a friend who majored in computer science

and I had no idea what that meant or why anyone would want to do something to irrelevant to life as we know it.

[Gregorian]

111. Right! Same here.

I was using a circular slide rule, all cool like. And this guy who was majoring in computer science had the first four function calculator. And he had seen Jimi Hendrix. Nerds were cool back then.

[ikojo]

131. I remember getting a Texas Instruments

calculator and spelling hell and other things using the numbers....

I was a gadget freak even then, when the gadgets weren't nearly as cool

[kwassa]

31. Kent State

Four dead in Kent, Ohio, about sixty miles from where I lived. The former student council president of my high school, who was attending Kent State, was one of the students indicted by the Ohio Grand Jury for forcing those guardmen to shoot at them. He was not on campus the day of the shooting, incidently.

My high school shut down, the whole country shut down, we wore black armbands and protested the war

[no name no slogan]

33. My clothes on the first day of Kindergarten, 1974

A pair of red, white and blue-striped bell bottoms, with a matching zip-up jacket with one of those huge metal loop zipper-pulls. And a red turtleneck.

Yes, I was quite the dandy as a young lad. Allah only knows what happened to my fashion sense in the intervening years.

[DanCa]

34. Meatloaf - bat out of hell album - 1978 (nt)

[VelmaD]

36. Jimmy Carter's inaugural parade

I was 6. I remember watching on tv with my momma and seeing him actually walking the parade route instead of riding in the limo. :)

[Rising Phoenix]

37. uh...being born

[meegbear]

38. Having clothes that were either cotton, demin or polyester ...

and none of it ever looked good on me.

[bikebloke]

39. First trip to Europe

Air fares dropped thanks to Freddie Laker. So I thought I'd see something of the world before getting down the life script of career, family, station wagon etc. Instead my eyes opened. I saw something better over there. So I travelled a lot over ther years, hoping to settle down legally over there. Unfortunately, I didn't have much luck.

[China_cat]

40. I married my husband in 1974.

[Eugene]

41. The energy crisis. Daylight savings time in the winter.

I remember going to school in the dark and seeing the sun rise
at 8 A.M. near Boston, unheard of in these parts.
Around 1974, there were shortages of just about everything.

[Arugula Latte]

42. Oh man, so many memories:

* riding around in the back of a neighbor's truck w/ friends giving the peace sign and I thought we were saying "peas." (Okay, in my defense, I was about five at the time.)

* dancing "The Hustle" w/ my big sister & her friends

* kissing David Cassidy's poster on my sister's wall

* seeing my first concert (Linda Ronstadt) when I was six; I got stoned off of second-hand marijuana smoke (I feel fuuuuunny -- no, I never turned into a stoner).

* when Gerald Ford visited our town (Walnut Creek, Calif.) in '76 to ring a replica of the liberty bell and the clapper fell off in his hand (where is Chevy Chase when you need him?)

* getting my hair cut into a very feathery Farrah Do.

* watching Carol Burnett, Mary Tyler Moore, All in the Family, M*A*S*H, Happy Days, Laugh In, Tony Orlando, Sonny & Cher, Donny & Marie (ah, those were the days of variety shows).

* watching the kids' movie "Zebra in the Kitchen" and they turned off the movie because the Vietnam War had ended and they wanted to commemorate it.

* a giant peace sign on the highest building in town, a bank ...

* watching hippies in San Francisco

* dancing to "Saturday Night Fever" at a school dance; getting huge crushes on Barry and Andy Gibb.

[indigo32]

50. God I loved the Carol Burnett Show

LOL

[Arugula Latte]

58. Oh yeah. Remember the "Gone w/ the Wind" sketch?

A classic, w/ Carol wearing the drapes and the curtain rod...

[achtung_circus]

69. Went With The Wind

supposedly the longest laugh in television history.

"I saw it in the window and I just Haad to have it."

[SeattleGirl]

103. I can STILL laugh till I cry when I see that!

:rofl: :rofl:

[MN ChimpH8R]

44. Just one?

A good one was seeing Yes on the Relayer tour in late 1974 (or was it early 1975?). It was the last show of the tour and the opening band, Gryphon (they had a bassoon player that dressed like Hagrid in the Harry Potter books) came out and jammed with Yes for the encore. Lotsa :smoke:in goin'on there, you betcha.

[bmbmd]

45. It's personal.

But it was fun.

[Shine]

46. I remember what a big-ass deal they made about the bicentennial in '76

Everything was red-white-and-blue and rah-rah-rah!!

[Lisa]

47. I walked into my grade school classroom, the day after the 1976 election

Since this was up in Canada, we didn't follow US politics much -- but my teacher was what I now recognize as a big-time political junkie. She had written "Jimmy Carter Wins!!!" in foot-high letters. And she spent several minutes talking about how a man from a place I'd never heard of until then (Plains, Georgia) was going to be the President.

(And, Jara -- there was a kid in the class, named Wes, who was inordinately proud of his new "KISS" t-shirt and wore it practically every day!)

Later, my parents signed me up for the new "National Geographic World" magazine, and I started to see stories in there about new things like solar power and recycling, and about how the Carters had a little girl (just a bit older than me). I suspect that the overall-positive image I have of the US dates from this time.

The schoolhouse was demolished a few years ago, to make way for an ugly subdivision. My teacher passed away in the summer of 2000, so she didn't see what happened with the recount. (Another memory I have of her is how she told us stories about living in London during the Blitz -- the rationing, and having to hide when enemy bombers flew overhead. Most of the other kids thought it was just boring old stuff, but I really appreciate this now ... better than in any book or video!)

[Oeditpus Rex]

48. Cruising South Main Street

1973-75, when $3.09 got you about nine gallons o' gas (leaded) instead of one.

Greatest. Summer. Ever.

[ThatsMyBarack]

49. Sesame Street

Classic, intelligent, and Elmo-free! Ah, those were the days. ;)

[HEyHEY]

52. Uh, birth?

[kmla]

53. Ummm. Lessee....

-Plain Pockets Jeans - you could get 'em @ JC Penney.

-Hugh!!!1111 platform shoes. Wore 'em with a leisure suit.

-Our Ford Country Squire station wagon. Complete w/ the wood paneling on the side

-Watching 'The Midnight Special' and 'Don Kirschner's Rock Concert' late on Saturday night.

-Playing pitch and catch with my big brother.

-Reading the Hardy Boys books. And having a crush on Nancy Drew from the TV Show (Pamela Sue Martin).

[lizziegrace]

55. I LOVED the Midnight Special and Rock Concert

Saw Jim Croce perform just before he died.

We'd all pick someone's house to go crash and watch. (Yes, it was so that 70's show...)

[lizziegrace]

54. Too many!

High school graduation
Bicentennial (loved the parade of the tall ships from Boston)
Carol Burnett
Mary Tyler Moore
Bell-bottoms
All the music!
Rocky
Star Wars
Cruisin around in my boyfriend's lime green Vega.
Living in Memphis when Elvis died. (Whadda circus!)

[u4ic]

56. Showering in the rain

My 2 older sisters and I (in our bathing suits), taking our shampoo and soap, going out in a storm and washing ourselves.

We used to do it quite often.

[WCGreen]

57. SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX.....

[swag]

112. Excellent.

Birth control pills raining down from heaven, Herpes Simplex II barely on the horizon, AIDS lurking, but invisible, waiting for us in the decade to come.

A decade of sexual opportunity, those seventies. Sad I was still so young and so fundamentally Christian.

Sounds like you had yourself some fun, though. Good on ya.

[WCGreen]

119. Oh yea...

All you really needed was the balls to make a fool out of yourself on the dance floor....

That, and enough money for Lambrusco..

[swag]

120. Oh, Cella Lambrusco. In the big green bottle?

Too cheap for Blue Nun, were we?

[WCGreen]

121. I'm catholic... No nun anything for this lad

To wierd...

[swag]

133. I had a girlfriend like that once.

In the seventies, even. Fundamentalist boy + Catholic girl = no poon.

[WCGreen]

135. That must have been fun....

[swag]

137. Yeah.

Round up the usual suspects: fellatio and cunnilingus.

[WCGreen]

139. trend setter....

That's all the kids today can wrap their mouths around

[Arugula Latte]

59. Those were also the days when I loved the Olympics.

Remember Dorothy Hammill winning the gold, Mark Spitz w/ seven, Franz Klammerer w/ that crazy downhill race, etc.

[tjwash]

60. Soul train, soul traiiiiiin, da da daa, da dah, da, dah dah....

...dah dah dah dah.

Remember the soul train line at the end?

[Wcross]

61. I was 7 in 1970 so it covers my teen years.

Long hair. I had a nice full head of hair down to my shoulders.
Kiss- Thought they were the best thing I had ever seen.
Bell bottom jeans- way cool!
I remember going to play in a hockey game and hearing on the news that saigon had fallen to the North Vietnamese.
Mood rings.
Pot going from 25-30 bucks an ounce to 100 but well worth the money due to quality improvements.
My sisters love affair with the "Bay city rollers"
The erie canal breaking near Pittsford N.Y. I was at the canal that day and all of a sudden there was a current!
Nixon resigning.
Being forced to go see the Movie "1776".
Being forced out of the water due to wanting to see "Jaws". I have not been in the ocean yet.

[democracyindanger]

63. "Hey Baby! We'll be back to pick you up later!"

Ah, the joys of Mr. Microphone.

[terrya]

64. Fucking without condoms

We gay men had no interest in condoms back then.

[Truebrit71sbruv]

145. Cheesecloth shirts...

... tie-dye t-shirts and jeans with bell-bottoms you could hide an and invading Mongol horde beneath.

That and discovering the thing between my legs was not just for taking a piss with...

[Dervill Crow]

65. Our kitten went up the inside of Mr. Blue's bell-bottom jeans. n/t

[flamingyouth]

66. Sitting a gas line in the backseat of my mom's 1971 Ford Galaxie 500

Also, I remember eating Screaming Yellow Zonkers while watching The Brady Bunch. :D

[TheCentepedeShoes]

68. Graduating college

and moving to FL. Great new kinds of shows on the teevee like All in the Family, SNL, and MASH. Writing a letter to Nixon asking for his resignation. It really seems like yesterday, hard to believe so much time has passed. (sigh)

PS - anybody remember Abbie Hoffman's "Steal this Book" ? I saw a new copy in a local bookstore last Sunday. I had a copy in the 70's but someone, uh, stole it.

[Gregorian]

114. I just bought a copy out of nostalgia.

But it doesn't seem as seriously revolutionary as it did when I first saw it.

[tjwash]

70. Remember these?

http://www.aresearchguide.com/charlies_angels_1978.jpe

[ikojo]

134. Niiiiiice package on Officer Poncherello

I remember watching Starsky and Hutch with my friend Michele and gazing at Starsky's tushy!!!

[southlandshari]

71. "Fat Bottomed Girls" by Queen - the bicycle race poster

I remember me and my best friend sneaking into her big sister's room to sneak a peek at this poster that was tucked inside a Queen album jacket. Queen had staged a bicycle race around some stadium in England - with 200 naked women as the competitors - the poster was a freebie with the Jazz album.

I think that is why I am so naughty today. Damn Freddie Mercury!

:rofl:

[southlandshari]

72. First recommendation for the Greatest page has been made

Can't believe I was first. Ahem.....

;)

[leftofthedial]

73. the light the light! ooh it's moving . . .

look at my hand . . .




did you see that DID YOU SEE THAT?




oh. and "I am not a crook."

[riderinthestorm]

123. Stoned.Emerson, Lake and Palmer on the headsets.

Thinking I was in heaven as I floated away from the leather sofa in my parent's family room.

[bigwillq]

74. My sister and I covering the walls

with our diaper doo doo! :)

The power of TWINS!

[ghostsofgiants]

75. A whole lot of non-existence

Good times. Good times.

[Pithlet]

76. I can remember yellow smilie face stickers and pins.

Red, white and blue sprinkles on the ice cream at Friendly's (for the bicentennial, I suppose). Brightly colored plaid pants. Land of the Lost. My toes getting caught in my Nanna's green shag carpet. The big blizzard where the snow was deeper than I was tall in places. I was born in 72.

On edit: How could I forget the Muppets? My favorite show back then.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

77. In 1970, they changed the dress code to allow girls to wear

"nice pantsuits" from November to May in our public schools. But our skirts couldn't be higher than 7 inches above the knees.

No jeans. Period.

[cwydro]

78. I used to LOVE PONG

[StellaBlue]

81. hmmm...

fluid, muffled voices, warmth....

[Awsi Dooger]

82. The undefeated Dolphins of '72, and the Sooner wishbone

Those were the rooting interests of my youth and it was awesome! Only a handful of losses in a period spanning several years. My dad timed it perfectly, getting season tickets for the Dolphins beginning in '72. That was the smartest and most resourceful team, with a dominant offensive line and ground game. We threw the ball maybe 8 to 12 times per game, primarily to let Paul Warfield stretch his graceful legs. Damn shame the WFL came around and swiped Csonka, Warfield and Kiick in their primes. The Steeler fans have no idea how much that contributed to their dominance of the rest of the decade.

My Canes were mediocre to lousy and played home games on Friday nights. I needed a Saturday team and aligned with the sleek Sooner wishbone in the middle of the '70 season, when I watched them against Texas. They got blown out, but the offense was such a blur compared to the plodding 'bone of the Longhorns. A year later was the crushing Thanksgiving Day defeat to Nebraska, 35-31, but such a remarkable game and team. We won titles in '74 and '75, great timing because the Dolphins won Super Bowls in '72 and '73, giving my teams championships in four straight seasons. I had no idea it wouldn't always be that easy...

[hippywife]

84. I have

no memory of the 70's! :o :D }(

[puerco-bellies]

85. Buying Pot for $10.00 an ounce

We called them lids. I actually bought a few "lids" in Prince Alpert cans.

[sendero]

91. Yes! ....

... $10, what a bargain!

When I was young and somewhat more reckless, I remember riding my motorcycle to near downtown to buy a pound.

The seller, a good friend, was eager to prove to me that it was good shit. I relented and took a couple hits. It was good shit!

Then I had to get on my motorcycle and ride up Stemmons freeway back home. I was toasted, I had a pound bungeed to the "luggage rack" of my somewhat squirrelly Honda 450.

Damn I was stupid :)

Actually, the 70s were pretty much my worse decade. Not a good time overall :(

[Gregorian]

116. Ten bucks a lid. Really!

And all it did was make you drive real slow.

Yes, I remember.

[omega minimo]

86. Radio

[Clintmax]

87. Watching SHAZAM! on Saturday mornings when I was a kid!

Gods, I loved that show!

[RedstDem]

88. Listening To Dark Side Of The Moon In my Girlfriends Bedroom

Wow That was a damn good record...back then

edit: on a record player, if your not sure what one of those are you young-ins, check the smithsonian, i think they got one.

[Arkana]

89. I don't think I was even sperm in the 1970s.

:P

[the_spectator]

90. Visiting our mother's mother in Liverpool -

- empty lots still filled with rubble thanks to German bombing in World War II
- half the corner stores boarded up due to economic malaise
- everyday teenagers in spiky-blue hair
- seeing a trades union official giving an energetic speech on TV, and granny saying offhand, "Oh yes, that man's a communist." And he probably actually was.

Haven't been back over to the UK in ages, but I remember being absolutely shocked to hear sometime back in the 90s that they actually have STARBUCKS in Liverpool these days!

[Lubernaut]

93. Hmmm

The Sleestak, Sims Snakes, buying KISS Destroyer for a dime at a garage sale, Evil Knevil (sp) jumping the river, the fall of Saigon, Sid Vicious dying, Zoom, discovering Devo...

[AirmensMom]

94. I have a lot of them.

The best one was getting married in '76. :loveya:

[stlsaxman]

95. Seeing Jethro Tull playing Benefit, Aqualung, Thick As A Brick,

A Passion Play (backstage at Madison Square Garden and Nassau Colosseum!) and Minstrel In The Gallery...

Then they released "Too Old To Rock and Roll" and lost all interest. Damn, they were great once...

[Left Is Write]

96. I just thought of another thing. Having Romper Stompers at age six!

1972.

[Maestro]

97. I had pong too!

I also remember buying Led Zeppelin albums along with the double disco album, Studio 54 I still have it and laugh at it. But what a wierd combination of music. If anybody cares, I still listen to Zep not disco.

I also remember watching really cheesy TV shows. Man there was so corny crap on then. Oh and I remember standing in line in July I think burning up waiting to see the first Star Wars. What else? I read a lot of Mad Magazine too.

[Maestro]

99. I distinctly remember seeing Watergate all over the TV

back then and Viet Nam news as well. I was too young to understand it all but it just seemed like it was always on the TV.

[Redstone]

100. I remember thinking I'd feel old some day, seeing people post about how

they were kids , or even little kids, or not even born yet, in the 1970s.

I wasn't a kid then. Wish I had been.

Redstone

[ashling]

101. My Tshirt that said

Disco Sucks

[shanti]

102. jeez, i grew up in the 70's, so

you have to narrow it down - beginning, middle, end?

[Book Lover]

104. Polyester

Was there a severe cotton and linen shortage in the 70's? I remember horrible, hot, scratchy polyester in fugly color schemes. Oh, the 70's were ugly.

[henslee]

106. Seeing Peter Frampton at MSG and watcing R3D2 come out for the encore.

And I went with this tottaly hot chick named Terri who dumped me a week later for the quarterback of a rival high school. I was way out of my league.

[swag]

107. The Flip Wilson Show, and the Geraldine doll that talked.

There was a TV show called the Flip Wilson show that was on for a few years in the early 70s. Back then, we all watched TV, not like today where we all are too busy having thrillingly romantic and intensely sexual affairs, meaningful lasting and engaging friendships, and daring life-enhancing adventures. Back then, TV was the thing. Pretty good deal. Only a few people in New Jersey had cable, so we were still all pretty much pure and proud and brave and free.

On the Flip Wilson show, one of Flip's most popular characters was "Geraldine." Geraldine was Flip dressed in flashy drag, saying all sorts of bold, sassy, and brash things to whomever was around her. "The devil made me do it" was one of Geraldine's most popular catch-phrases. Everybody in fourth grade was saying "the devil made me do it," all day and all night. We were so fucking hilarious.

One day, I discovered a shelf of Geraldine pull-string talking dolls at the Base Exchange (which is kind of like a small military Target or K-Mart) at Cameron Station in Alexandria, VA, where my dad was stationed with the Strategic Readiness Center (which he maintains to this day was a supremely bullshit operation). I pulled the string of one of the Geraldine dolls and heard Flip Wilson's voice say stiffly and scratchily, "The devil made me buy that dress."

That was the moment I knew that things had changed forever. Little did I know that it would be the high point of my life.

[Gregorian]

109. Doing the Bump with a big fat woman.

Yes, me (a 95 pound 19 year old white kid) doing the bump to that disco tune on a disco floor with a very large black woman. Can you say awkward...


Getting caught in the middle of the night sawing down someone's giant bamboo in an attempt to actually fabricate a bong.


Oh, don't get me started. I don't even want to get into the car crash while wearing see-through clothing. :)

[Z_I_Peevey]

110. Hearing a Cheech and Chong album

for the first time.

Neon plastic doorway beads. Knee-high suede boots. Crocheted cap and poncho combinations (very Marcia Brady!).

Big honking bow ties on the guys. Gold chains. Tom Jones. The Exorcist. Sweet Caroline. My Sweet Lord. Yesterday, When I Young.

[enigmatic]

113. Friday Night/Saturday Night in Clevo

Friday Night meant Houlihan And Big Chuck:



Saturday Night meant The Ghoul:



As a kid growing up in the 70's, Clevo was a Mecca for Late-Night Horror Movie
Hosts..

[swag]

115. WIN buttons.

Gerald Ford went on TV and gave a speech about inflation, which was getting out of control at the time. Nixon's wage/price freeze scheme had failed, and then of course, later on, Nixon himself completely failed.

Ford announced in his TV speech to the nation that the government was going to distribute WIN buttons in an inflation-fighting campaign. WIN stood for "Whip Inflation Now," he explained.

I shit you not. This really happened.

[CanuckAmok]

117. My bike.

Green metallic flake paint with a high-rise white vinyl "banana" seat, and handlebars which lined with the altitude of my forehead (with tragic results on several occasions).

[Gregorian]

118. Party!

It was parties everywhere. Huge ones. I even remember having to knock down the backyard fence to get GIANT speakers into a backyard for a monster party. Kegs on friday nights. Beach bonfires with live bands hooked up to a generator on Saturday nights. Before the drug war it was all out fun. Pick your substance.

Laugh-in during the weekday evenings.

Impeachment hearings.

[MrScorpio]

122. I'm playing those memories on my radio show

Right now

[Hand]

124. Ai yi yi...

Would have to be that lovely sunny afternoon of spontaneous, prolonged, sweaty, tender lovemaking in Boulder, CO, with a woman I'd met only the day before.

Ah, me. Those were some good times.
:hippie:

[Hand]

125. The 1975 World Series!

BEST. SERIES. EVER.

[driver8]

144. Oh yeah, baby!! Unbelievable series!!! n/t

[DanCa]

126. Model airplane glue

I hate this new and improved federally regulated stuff that's out now. Man I used to spend hours locked away working on sail boats and air planes and dreamming of far off worlds. I tried building models recently but it's just not the same. Damn fed glue regulations I miss the good stuff. Anyone got any 1970 air plane glue? :D Sarcasam.

[Montauk6]

127. Saturday afternoons at the Fox Theatre in Detroit watching kung-fu movies

This was long before the beautiful restoration that was completed back in the late 80s/early 90s, of course.



Back then, the Fox was a shell of its glory days, with its pungent aroma of old popcorn butter, whisky, reefer, hot dogs, and just oldness, it was like an old hooker, y'know? Anyway, they used to have double and even triple features of badly dubbed kung-fu movies with cheesy but funky soundtracks. Of course, Bruce Lee was the draw, and Enter The Dragon brought some major butt to those dilapidated worn-out seats.



Also, we'd go down to Cobo Arena



to watch Big Time Wrestling live, when it was "real." Long before it became mainstream with headquarters out of Stamford, CT. Long before the steroid-filled pretty boys (and girls) that do more shouting on a mic than actual RASSLIN! I'll never forget how my adrenalin was on super-high and my little heart pumping fiercely with excitement watching warriors like the Sheik and Bobo Brazil (rest in peace to both) beat each other bloody.

[Hand]

128. Baseball players started growing mustaches again!

[Kurovski]

132. Constantly moist armpits from Quiana shirts.

[AngryAmish]

136. Jimmy Carter visiting my hometown

Stayed the night in a private home. We waited outside for him to arrive. My friend was singing "Peatnut man is coming to town" to the tune of "Santa Claus is coming to town". Actually, it seemed the Secret Service was pretty low-key except for the snipers in the houses on either side and across the street.

on edit: He came on May 25, 1978. I was nine.

[RoyGBiv]

141. Same here!

He is the one and only President who has been to my small home town in SE Oklahoma.

My mom worked in the social services building there, and this was the place he chose to make his appearance, so I got to see him up close and personal since she took me to work with her that day for the event. I don't remember the exact date or a lot of details, just seeing a lot of people who weren't normally there and this guy that was obviously very, very important.

[samplegirl]

138. Smoke on the water

a fire in the sky!!! Scorpio my favorite head shop
incense, gauze shirts & leather carved handbags and
you know what else. Oh my god such a flashback...
everyone drove pinto's or mustangs.
P.O.W. braclets.

[RoyGBiv]

140. Gibsons Dept Store ...

I have so many memories attached to this store.

In 1975 I remember my mother giving me a quarter so I could ride on the rocking horse ride, and I noticed it had a different design on the reverse side. It was the first bicentinial quarter I'd seen, and when I asked my mom about it, she told me what it meant. Thus began a life-long interest in coinage and history.

A year later, Gibsons sold out to then fledgling Wal-Mart. My mom took me there for the 75% off close-out sale. I got a Laverne and Shirley board game, a puzzle game involving blocks in some way, some coloring books (I still like coloring books), and a Best Rainy Day Book Ever that *saved* me during my many sick days due to asthma attacks and a bout with pneumonia.

I also remember TG&Y and my mom taking me there the day Grandma flew to Germany to visit her only son, who was stationed there in the Air Force and had just had his first child. I was very sad that she was gone and didn't know what to do with myself without Grandma around to play with me. Mom got me some Play-Doh! and a silver cutting board thing to use for rolling it and a wooden rollen pin. She also got me the optional mold that made snakes and such. It was perfect.

I loved the 70's, just because I was a kid, and my mom and grandma were my world, and they made everything very good.

[Z_I_Peevey]

146. Gibson's!

I got a pair of rainbow-swooped platform rubber sandals at Gibson's before they closed out. Wore them until they fell completely apart somewhere around 1980.

[Historic NY]

142. Celebrating the end of the draft.....

I ended up with a low number...and then it ended.

[vajraroshana]

143. My first concert: Heart....

When the lights of the arena came on after the concert and the smoke (mostly pot-smoke) was so thick that it was like a fog. This was 1976 or 1977 or thereabouts. That was a great concert!