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70 best things about the 1970s - how many of these do you remember?
The Mirror ^ | 2/11/16 | Mirror.co.uk

Posted on 12/22/2022 2:50:39 AM PST by DallasBiff

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To: wally_bert

When mrs. abb & I were courting, that was our regular Friday night date at my folks house - Rockford Files and Quincy. Saturday we would splurge and go to a movie.


41 posted on 12/22/2022 4:07:19 AM PST by abb
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To: Fresh Wind

“ The 70s spawned the Vietnam war? /facepalm”

Better to blame Nixon and Ford and not Kennedy/Johnson, I guess


42 posted on 12/22/2022 4:09:57 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines (Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus)
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To: mewzilla
Agnes in ‘72 springs to mind.

Agnes was never declared a hurricane, IIRC, but that girl did a lot of damage in the NE as a tropical storm.

43 posted on 12/22/2022 4:10:54 AM PST by DallasBiff (Kamala is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: Jolla

Truman “sent over transport planes and jeeps, along with 35 military advisers, as part of a multimillion-dollar aid package.

U.S. involvement in the conflict would only deepen from there. By the end of Truman’s presidency, the United States was funding more than one-third of France’s war costs.”

It was JFK that got us involved in an actual war.


44 posted on 12/22/2022 4:14:19 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: DallasBiff
The 1970s

Horrible music
Gas lines
Jimmy Carter
Saturday Night Live (when it was funny)

45 posted on 12/22/2022 4:14:58 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: DallasBiff

Got out of the Navy in ‘70. Married in ‘71. College. Work. I remember it well.


46 posted on 12/22/2022 4:16:19 AM PST by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: MayflowerMadam

Bell bottom slacks.


47 posted on 12/22/2022 4:16:35 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: DallasBiff

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.


48 posted on 12/22/2022 4:17:09 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: abb

We watch an episode every evening.


49 posted on 12/22/2022 4:18:05 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: Jack023

>Lynyrd Skynyrd. Free Bird. Oakland Coliseum Stadium. Summer 1977.

Got that right. That performance is right up there with Queen at Wembly 1985.


50 posted on 12/22/2022 4:18:56 AM PST by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: Jack023

>Lynyrd Skynyrd. Free Bird. Oakland Coliseum Stadium. Summer 1977.

Got that right. That performance is right up there with Queen at Wembly 1985.


51 posted on 12/22/2022 4:19:09 AM PST by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: MayflowerMadam

Jimmmeeeeeee!!!


52 posted on 12/22/2022 4:19:43 AM PST by abb
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To: Jolla
Streaking

https://youtu.be/XtzoUu7w-YM

53 posted on 12/22/2022 4:21:04 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: DallasBiff

“It was a decade that spawned the Sex Pistols and the Vietnam War, platform shoes and Saturday Night Fever.”

Bullshit! The Vietnam war was “spawned” at least 15 years before the Shitty Seventies wver started/


54 posted on 12/22/2022 4:21:34 AM PST by Tupelo (A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand)
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To: Jolla

“A high school parking lot full of the best cars ever”

I don’t know about high school, but that was how it was for the parking lot at work. Bring back the cool cars!


55 posted on 12/22/2022 4:22:59 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: Gay State Conservative
I don't agree about the horrible music. Spend one hour listening to a modern pop station and you'll be begging for 70s music again.:)

And two more years of Biden will be enough to have most of us longing for the Jimmy Carter days again.

56 posted on 12/22/2022 4:25:33 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: Gay State Conservative

There was some horrible music, and there was also GREAT music. Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.

I remember those gas lines. I think that’s when I first learned to pump my own gas. Why did we pay someone extra to do that for us?


57 posted on 12/22/2022 4:26:02 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: Mark17

“Bell bottom slacks.”

Oh, yeah. Just a month or two ago I got rid of most of my sewing patterns from the ‘70s and ‘80s. There were bell bottoms. I was too short for them to look good on me.

The ‘60s styles were better.


58 posted on 12/22/2022 4:26:47 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: Mark17

Leisure suits. I hear they are making a comeback.


59 posted on 12/22/2022 4:27:12 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: DallasBiff

SNL was actually funny in the 70s.


60 posted on 12/22/2022 4:27:48 AM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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