70 best things about the 1970s - how many of these do you remember?

The Mirror ^ | 2/11/16 | Mirror.co.uk

[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.

[xp38]

She passed away this year. This record in 1974 made her a star which lead eventually to her starring in Grease.

[dfwgator]

How about the Friendly Giant on Canadian tv?

I remember watching that as a kid in Michigan.

[gitmo]

Sitting in line to get a few gallons of gasoline in freezing cold weather with the engine turned off because you might may make it to the pump. Now that’s fun! And no heating oil.

Jimmy Carter created an economy like Brandon’s.

[gitmo]

I married my sweetheart in 1972. I’m beginning to think she might be the one.

[Yardstick]

Good list!

I remember looking through the KISS posters at K-Mart.

Everything smelled like cigarettes.

The awesome late ‘70s Pontiac Trans Am.

Evel Knievel themed toys including that windup motorcycle that everyone had.

Star Wars everything if you were a kid.

Tall tube socks with stripes.

Beginning of tennis rackets made of stuff other than wood.

No UPC codes yet. Every item at the grocery store had a price tag stuck to it.

TAB

[PghBaldy]

Bee Gees started in the 1960s. They had some great songs then (To Love Somebody, I Started A Joke...). Bay City Rollers were a Scottish group.

[wardaddy]

Quaaludes no question

Best drug ever made

Don’t drink or drive on ditch biscuits

Perfect pharma for post menopausal gals to bring that itch back into their life

Disco did indeed suck but it’s where the girls were alas

Another high point was when straight legs eclipsed bell bottoms

Rock music peaked especially the first half

I loved the 70s

High school and college

[wardaddy]

If you don’t listen to them for about 20 years then they sound really good again

[dfwgator]

The 70’s spawned the Vietnam War? The mirror could not even get that right?

That's intentional, as the Left wants you to believe that Vietnam was Nixon's War, and not JFK and LBJ's.

[packrat35]

If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me...

[wardaddy]

We have people on this forum who believe that journey is better bad Led Zeppelin

They need rehabilitation camps

[packrat35]

If you think you’re gonna take her away, with your money and your cocaine...

[gitmo]

I hear they are making a comeback.

Oh no!

[dfwgator]

“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.”

"'Cause I Know That's The *Popular* Version Of What Went On There....."

[cyclotic]

Me too. Channel 9

[packrat35]

The Bee Gees started in the 60’s faded out then made a comeback with disco.

[dfwgator]

I think folks who hated disco back then, over time have gained an appreciation for the Bee Gees, I know I have.

[Cecily]

Soul Train and all the artists and music thereon

Elton John/Bernie Taupin when they were great

All the top tennis players: Chris Evert, Billie Jean King, Jimmy Connors, Bjorn Borg, et al. I loved to watch tennis then.

The Olympics hosted by Jim McKay.

All the interesting and talented actors, directors and movies produced by Hollywood and the British film industry.

Beautiful high fashion by designers like Halston and Yves St. Laurent.

[dfwgator]

Soul Train and all the artists and music thereon



I never missed Soul Train on Saturdays.

[dfwgator]

I went through BCT with a lot of guys from Mississippi in the fall of ‘69. They told us stories about Hurricane Camille that still give me nightmares.

What most forget about Camille is that it killed over 200 people in Virginia from flooding.