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50 Things Only People Who Lived in the 1970s Will Remember
BestLife ^ | 5/18/20 | Bob Larkin

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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: 70s
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To: Varsity Flight

(Summeral)


141 posted on 09/05/2025 6:19:28 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesies set before you." ) I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: Varsity Flight

Cabbage Patch toys were 1980’s (1986?)


142 posted on 09/05/2025 6:24:25 PM PDT by Windcatcher
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To: JBW1949

Ha! I streaked a Debutante Ball with my girlfriend in ‘74!


143 posted on 09/05/2025 6:51:33 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Many younger people have no clue what that is.


144 posted on 09/05/2025 7:11:03 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Windcatcher

Nice collection!


145 posted on 09/05/2025 7:17:34 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: DallasBiff

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


146 posted on 09/05/2025 7:23:03 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Tell It Right

We can rebuild him. Stronger. Faster.


147 posted on 09/05/2025 7:23:42 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: DallasBiff

Taping Dr. Demento from the radio to cassettes.


148 posted on 09/05/2025 7:38:11 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: ViLaLuz

I can literally quote the entire intro spoken by Richard Anderson. LOL


149 posted on 09/05/2025 7:39:37 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: DallasBiff

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.

5.56mm


150 posted on 09/05/2025 7:50:21 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Democrats: Not self aware, hypocrites, lacking morals who believe history begins when they wake up)
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To: Tell It Right
Rules, gentlemen!


151 posted on 09/05/2025 8:44:44 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The U.S spends 13 times (+1,200%) as much per year on Ukraine than it ever has on Israel.)
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To: Rinnwald

“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.


152 posted on 09/06/2025 3:30:18 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: Salman

“Not where I lived.”

Really. They taught us that when I started kindergarten in 1960.


153 posted on 09/06/2025 3:36:33 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: Dartoid

“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.


154 posted on 09/06/2025 6:26:23 AM PDT by Wuli (uire)
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To: shelterguy

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).


155 posted on 09/06/2025 6:37:55 AM PDT by meyer (CONGRATULATIONS WORLD, IT’S TIME FOR PEACE!)
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To: meyer

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.


156 posted on 09/06/2025 6:51:50 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: LanaTurnerOverdrive

Hendrix


157 posted on 09/06/2025 10:58:19 AM PDT by A strike (f the UK/MI6 effort to sucker the US into perpetuating their delusion of British world importance)
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To: T.B. Yoits
The SHO engine offered double overhead cams and four valves per cylinder among other things.

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.

158 posted on 09/06/2025 5:10:01 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: M Kehoe
One thing I’ll never forget was not getting paid for two months because of Carter and the democrats.

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.

159 posted on 09/06/2025 5:23:27 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
I got it. I was just remarking to my wife the other day how you never see those tangles of cassette tape alongside the road now.

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.

160 posted on 09/06/2025 5:33:02 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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