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.
BINGO! Then taxes skyrocketed forcing them into the workplace and began the demise of the family structure.
CKLW. Nuff said
Rita Bell.
Bill Kennedy.
Hockey Night in Canada from channel 9 in Windsor.
Won’t mention the Windsor Ballet...