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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Cabbage Patch toys were 1980’s (1986?)
Ha! I streaked a Debutante Ball with my girlfriend in ‘74!
Many younger people have no clue what that is.
Nice collection!
It’s not nice to fool mother nature.
Where’s the beef?
I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.
The beat goes on.
Weebles wobble...
Two all-beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun.
You’re soaking in it. (Aaaagh!)
Ancient Chinese secret.
If you think it’s butter, but it’s “snot”...
I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in the pan...
I’m cuckoo for cocoa puffs
Ring around the collar, ring around the collar
We can rebuild him. Stronger. Faster.
Taping Dr. Demento from the radio to cassettes.
I can literally quote the entire intro spoken by Richard Anderson. LOL
In the fwiw department I spent most all of the 70s in Uncle Sam’s boys club. So I missed much of the culture of that decade.
One thing I’ll never forget was not getting paid for two months because of Carter and the democrats.
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“There were a couple of good years, that were really a contiuation of the sixties, then 8 years of malaise cars. Objectively some of the worst U.S. cars ever made.”
Yep. Cars got really ugly quickly. Compare the ‘69 Charger to the ‘75 Charger.
“Not where I lived.”
Really. They taught us that when I started kindergarten in 1960.
“This is not a list of commons, it is a list of historical facts.”
“Facts” of NOT common interest or significance to masses of people at the time.
I went through the list. The majority of the items had no part and or no interest to me in my life in the 1970s.
The first 5 - zip, zilch, nada; 7 & 8, Nada; 11 - 15, Nada; 18 - 26, Nada; 28, Nada; 33, Nada; 33, 34, 35, 37 - 39, Nada; 42 - 46, Nada; 48 - 49, Nada. That’s 72% of the items were not part of my life in the 70s.
The “popularity” of many items was what the main stream media pushed, while many people ignored that push.
Best cars?
I’m going to go out on a limb and say - no - it was the decade of the smogged out, choked out motors. The decade of 172 horsepower 400 cubic inch engines as opposed to today’s 300+ HP engines of half that size. It was the decade where the Corvette could barely do a 1/4 mile drag run in 16.1 seconds (1978) whereas even today, trucks like my 2017 F-150 with the twin turbo 3.5 liter did the 1/4 mile in under 15 seconds.
Tough times for vehicles (thanks, Jimmy Carter) though there were some really nice lookers out there (and some duds).
I’ll go out and try to lay a patch with my Honda CR-V.
I’ll let you know how it goes.
I can’t tell one car from another these days. They all look the same.
Hendrix
The SHO came out in 1989 and I bought one. Until then auto engineers stated a front wheel drive care could not have more than 200 HP due to problems with torque steer. The SHO proved them wrong. That 24 valve Yamaha engine had a 9k RPM red line and was as smooth as silk.
It was one of my cars I really miss.
I graduated high school and joined the Air Force in 1976 and didn't leave until 1981 when Reagan took office.
I do not remember the two months without pay but I do remember the year Carter boasted to us how he gave us a huge pay raise. What really happened was the politicians raised the taxes so much my paychecks that Fiscal Year started out less than before the pay raise. Lets not even talk about that inflation during that time.
Or streaming from the powerlines, glistening in the sunlight, from the kids who got frustrated that the deck had eaten other tape, and so cracked open the cassette, pulled the reel, and threw it back and forth to each other over the power lines.
I can remember kids tying the cassette tape across the street from street sign to street sign as they walked by. Tie one end, walk across the street, tie off the other end, and repeat it on the next cross-street. The drivers who had to get out and cut them seemed pretty nonchalant, like they sympathized with people whose tapes had gotten eaten.
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