Posted on 09/05/2025 2:06:07 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Feeling nostalgic for a simpler time lately? You’re not alone. Here’s one thing everybody who was alive during the 1970s can agree on: The entire decade still feels like it only happened yesterday. Seriously, how can the ’70s be five decades in the past? It’s just not possible that the era ruled by bell-bottom jeans and 8-track cassettes was half a century ago. For those of us who lived through it—and survived that groovy yet perilous time—it will forever be a part of our souls. Here are 50 things you still remember from the decade that will fill you with 1970s nostalgia. And for a film flashback, revisit these 30 Movie Quotes Every ’70s Kid Knows by Heart.
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Stretch Armstrong
The Midnight Special and Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert.
I thought AIDS were those chocolate things that helped you lose weight.
We would send our film out in the mail, and wait a week to get the pictures. If it was urgent, we'd take it to the Fotomat and it would only take a couple days! I think we also used to drop film off at Walgreens and pick it up a few days later.
Those were Ayds.
Stones, Beatles, BeachBoys, Doors, Jimmie, Janis, LedZep, Animals, etc ..
and Louie,Louie..
I graduated high school in 1976. I drove a 1971 Pinto and survived. Despite its reputation it was a great reliable car. My friends called it the date datemobile because they would borrow it for dates. At drivein movies we would back into the parking space and recline the back seat to expose the trunk. Amazing amount of room back there.
I remember that the Bicentennial had been derailed by Nixon’s resignation. Supposedly there had been big plans that all got scaled back. Ford was feckless. Inflation was nasty…remember Whip Inflation Now buttons? It should have been huge, but the celebration was meh.
One little quibble: composite headlights were approved for the 1984 model year. The 1984 Lincoln Mark VII had them.
Enchirito... (T__T)
They brought it back for a while, and I wish they would again.
Bump
LOL! I get it.
1975 was the first year for catalytic converters.
Back then no-one could pronounce “catalytic,” so everyone seemed to call them “Cadillac converters.” We had a 1977 Chevrolet equipped with one, and it never converted into a Cadillac.
>>Pencil
Yep. 1 of 3 down.
One can’t forget the joys of early car emission controls, and engines that would run on after you turned off the ignition. My friend had a Mustang II, it ran almost as well with the ignition off as it did with the ignition on. What a piece of crap!
🔥"Burn, baby, burn, Disco Inferno!"🔥
Happily, our 250th birthday will be celebrated in grand style!
Score Mustang II, boredom zero!
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They were basically re-bodied Pintos.
I don’t miss engines that dieseled like that. My first car (that was all mine) was a 1987 Thunderbird (which I still have) and fuel injection was a godsend.
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