Detroit had a weatherman named Sonny Elliott. He was more of a comedian and had fun with the weather instead of STORM TEAM 4 and their eight forecasts every half hour.
He was also an American hero who spent 18 months as a POW after being shot down in WWII
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!
Who could forget Sonny? I didn’t know he was a POW. Sonny Elliott, Jack LaGoff, John Kelly & Marilyn Turner… lol!
I turned 8 in 1970, so growing up over that decade was AWESOME. The top 40 (At least in the first half of the decade) was always full of fun, catchy songs. And then as a teen in the second half, I caught up with all the great ROCK stuff that I’d missed in the first half.
There was MLB; The Cincinnati Reds, Baltimore Orioles, Oakland A’s and my beloved Detroit Tigers, who had a great final run in ‘72.
There was no PC. (And I don’t mean computers). We were still taught about the greatness of America. The rest of the world wanted to catch up and be like us.
As others have said, the cars were awesome (again, in the first half at least).
The styles were NOT as bad as they have been portrayed since the 90’s. Things were way cooler in reality.
Comedy was FUNNY. A lot of us learned it from Three Stooges re-runs.
Moms were still able to stay home. The exercise shows in the AM, a morning movie, the soaps, the after school re-run shows, the 4 o’clock movie, the news at 6, the evening sit-coms, 9 o’clock movie, news again at 11, the Late show and the Late, Late show..
Watergate only bothered me because the ridiculous, boring hearings pre-emoted my after school tv shows. Politics weren’t shoved in everything yet; if you wanted politics, you could find it.