And screw the Flyers for cancelling Kate Smith.
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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Yes you could.
Just play the B side of Eric Clapton’s Slowhand
“The Core”
Best road trip song ever!
Then play the entire Pink Floyd Animals album.
Let him read the lyrics.
(it is a take off of the George Orwell’s Animal Farm)
1) Long Hair
2) Experimentation with fabrics other than cotton or wool, complete disaster. (I think we finally got it right lately)
3) explosive age of rock and roll and later, yep, disco.
4) Roe v. Wade, mass use of birth control
5) Car Stereos, aftermarket speakers, the 8 track tape
6) Cable TV and the box
7) Sports free agency
8) 55mph national speed limit
9) microwave ovens sales skyrocketed - amana radarange
10) Portable cassette, floppy disk
11) The energy crisis
When I relocated to LA in the mid-70s, there was Dr. George, LA's weatherman. LA's weather is usually uninteresting and there's not much to talk about, but what little weather forecasting Dr. George actually did, it was very entertaining ... he reminded me a little of Professor Wendell Corey!
I was just a kid but here’s what I recall:
Stickpins
Cowlneck sweaters
Sticky lip gloss
Candies shoes
Hype for the Bicentennial
The Broadstreet Bullies (my dad held my baby brother while he watched the Cup and repeatedly said “you’re my good luck puck. To this day we call him Puck.)
Feathered hair parted down the middle
Combs sticking out of your back pocket
Saturday morning cartoons. Saturday afternoon creature double feature.
Larry Ferrari and his organ
Captain Kangaroo, Al Albert’s Showcase, Captain Noah
FFS. This reads like somebody put a query through Wikipedia to get the results, by someone that wasn’t even there. No thanks.
I might’ve been there
Per Wiki...
“The Vietnam War (also known by other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955[A 2] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.”
No author was listed in The Mirror article, but I bet money...the Vietnam War started before the Mirror writer was even born.
I just saw Steve Hackett perform Genesis’s hits from the seventies. He put together amazing musicians and the band was tight. I never saw so many old bald white men in one place. Count my hubby among them.
There were also great movies back in the 1970s.
These great movies actually were nominated for Academy Awards that meant something. We even watched the Oscars back then.
Jaws
The Godfather
The Godfather II
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Alien
Apocalypse Now
Rocky
Taxi Driver
Chinatown
The Sting
The French Connection
The Exorcist
The Deer Hunter
Animal House
Deliverance
Marathon Man
I still remember my mom telling me that polyester caused cancer. She said scientists shaved lab rats and had them wear little leisure suits. I believed her for about a minute.
Your list made me remember I admit I had a DICKY.
Just like cousin Eddy on “Christmas Vacation”
That outbreak happened in Philly. It was also around the same time (1968) that the horrible abuses at Pennhurst Asylum (for the feeble-minded and epileptic) were uncovered by ABC’s local affiliate reporter Bill Baldini. Still took them another 15 years to close the place. Now it’s a haunted attraction.
You mean that's when it went mainstream, and the Revolutionaries became school teachers.
And enjoyed the Grammy's
I've pretty much reached that point with most 70s music. It was great the first thousand times I heard it.
I begged my mom for a satin jacket. Powder blue with a white stripe down the arm. All the cook girls were wearing them.
Let’s see…I can remember from my childhood…
1. Sesame street
2. Yo-go’s
3. The encroachment of communists with the “Up With People” movement when I was in second grade.
4. Skinny plastic skateboards
5. Color television for middle class families
6. The Honda CVCC
7. 60s dune buggies made over with cool new speckled fiberglass
8. Shag carpet in the neighbor’s house, including the rake
9. Pong on the TV, soon to be followed by Tanks
10. Push lawnmowers we’re awesome
11. I got a .22 for Christmas
12. Fruit JELLO at every holiday
13. Tennis balls, flags, tassels on the “big kids’” ten speeds while we had baseball cards in the spokes of our kids’ bikes.
14. Babysitters
15. Neighbor with the hot tub
16. Neighbor with the in-ground swimming pool
17. Ladder over the fence to play with the friend that live on the other side of the block
18. Friends’ mom with the TV Guide and the remote control that said, “ping”.
19. We thought KISS was awesome and watched the special on TV
20. Grateful that Gilligan’s Island, Green Acres, I Dream Of Jeannie, and The Brady Bunch were in syndication between 3:00pm and 5:00pm after school
21. My new shoes made me run faster
22. Schwin bicycle with a banana seat
23. The “big kids” had firecrackers, cherry bombs and bottle rockets
24. Going on an night adventure at the creek and mom and dad knowing we’d get home eventually when we got tired enough, yet we’re only less than a mile from home, but thought we’d walked to the next stage
25. Finding Playboy magazines dumped in the woods
26. Had to go home because my friend got a whooping from his pa.
27. Carrying sleeping bags to the best friends’ house as the sun was setting on a Friday night
28. Etc…
The pre-Steve Perry stuff wasn't bad. Still can't believe Neil Schon was 17 when he was with Santana.
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