Posted on 12/22/2022 2:50:39 AM PST by DallasBiff
It was a decade that spawned the Sex Pistols and the Vietnam War, platform shoes and Saturday Night Fever.
The Seventies also gave us The Godfather and Space Hoppers but those glam rock years will forever live in the shadow of the Swinging Sixties.
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Superb stuff. I especially love the part near the end at 9:30 where Alan Collins is jumping up and down with both feet...and doesn’t miss a beat on his guitar. And...turn the sound off and watch the crowd. You can still hear the music.
Oh yes. Son of Sam. And the looting frenzy during the NYC blackout. I forgot about those.
Speaking of Son of Sam, the 70s had some of the most infamous serial murderers. Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy ...
Well, we were still influenced by Twiggy back then ;) And smoked. Smoking was cheaper than eating back then.
Sitting on a train between Hamburg and Frankfort Germany reading Time magazine open to the riots in the US and an image of a burning school bus - looking up to see the look of sheer horror on the face of the little old German lady sitting opposite
The 70’s spawned the Vietnam War? The mirror could not even get that right?
Musically, the best thing that happened in the 70s was the counter-disco revolution that started in the late 70s. Groups like The Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Clash, and hundreds of others led the way.
Disco sucks. It has always sucked. It will always suck.
LOL, “Streaking”! Hahahahahahahahahaha!
And the songs...”Dead Skunk in The Middle of The Road”, “My Ding-a-Ling” and “Wildwood Weed”...
I did have a good time in the Seventies. Of course, I was in the Navy during the entire second half, which is a different way of life for sure.
Lately, in almost all walks of life.
One of the great things about America was competence. Immigrants to this country saw that for themselves in contrast to the countries they came from.
Things worked here in the USA. You could drive the highways. You could drink the water safely anywhere. When you flipped a switch, lights came on. Ferries rarely sank or capsized killing large numbers of people, etc.
Seems like everything is breaking down now.
WKRP. Bailey, chasing Herb down the hallway while tossing lit matches at his leisure suit. Great stuff.
There was a local Kawasaki shop that I'd go into and drool over a racing green KZ-1000R Eddie Lawson Replica, with factory Kerker header and exhaust! And reading magazines, dreaming of the elegance of a round-case, bevel gear Ducati SS750!
Mark
Eighties. Mostly.
Vintage clothing is very popular in certain circles today. I know a guy who makes a living searching out and reselling old clothing. Some vintage rock t-shirts can bring thousands.
I lived overseas on military bases in the Pacific for a good part of the mid-Sixties and early Seventies.
I was always a very conservative kid, living in a military family and such, so as a military brat, I read and watched accounts of what was going on back in the USA with a large degree of trepidation.
I detested the hippie culture and anti-war culture. Not because they were anti-war, but because they slandered people like my dad and others in the military as “baby-killers” and such, so I grew to despise them.
I saw the reports of the protests and unrest. I read accounts of school kids having LSD secretly introduced into their food and drink at lunch, and the concept terrified me. (Truth or urban legend-I have no idea, but this is what my perception of the USA was during those years)
But when we did return to the States, and we landed at JFK in New York, when we deplaned onto the tarmac (that was what was often done in those days) I literally got down on my hands and knees and kissed the asphalt. I was that happy to be back in the USA after more than five years overseas.
That was in 1971-72.
I had a great time in the Seventies, but again, half of it was spent in the USN, so military life then was a bit different. We spent more time at anchor than warships do now (I think) we flew and steamed less, supplies were tight and we often did not have what we needed to operate on, didn’t even have adequate cold weather gear when we went up above the Arctic Circle in November (issued jackets good to 40 degrees, so we stuffed cleaning rags inside them for insulation when we worked on the flight deck) but...like so many in the Seventies, that was the way things were, so that was how we did them.
I remember the time Herb was selling life insurance...
LPs and the amazing art work on the covers and inside (anyone else remember first opening up Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" and seeing the additional artwork included with the album?)
AND AFFORDABLE CONCERT TICKETS!!!!
Mark
I was still a young girl living in Switzerland for a couple of years with my family in the early 70s (Dad was a scientist), and I remember how horrified the Europeans were at the riots and violence, too, but then the terrorists in Europe were horrifying as well. Swissair Flight 330 went down within sight of my school (Palestinian bomb).
The trains were great. You could guess what country a person was from by his or her shoes. Russians gave away themselves away with sideburns and fillings, even if they got the shoes right, though. Basel train station was a hive of Cold War spies. The exchange rate was great all over Europe before Nixon gave us funny money, and that was nice.
I saw my first hippies in real life in Vondelpark and was shocked. I’d only seen them in photos in Time and Newsweek before that. Ah, those were the days ...
Bailey. Why did you have to mention Bailey?
I was almost over her. I just did manage to let go of Mindy after all these years.
I, on the other hand, was terrified of returning to the State and contemplated remaining in Europe. I only returned because of family.
It was the 40’s that spawned the Vietnam war; e.g. created the political divisions and core leadership for the communists. Our first forces were in Vietnam as observers/advisors with the French just after WWII, and our first independent forces were in country in the very early 1950s.
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