50 Things Only People Who Lived in the 1970s Will Remember

BestLife ^ | 5/18/20 | Bob Larkin

[Dan in Wichita]

Who can forget the Bicentennial? Next year we will be celebrating our semi-quincentennial! So glad Trump will be leading the festivities.

[Leaning Right]

Ah, the 70s. I grew up in an old mill town. Moved away, and now I’m back. One thing I remember from those days is how the blast furnaces used to light up the nighttime sky.

That light meant good jobs, and money. Those mills are all gone now. I suppose that these days the Chinese mills are lighting up their nighttime sky. ☹️

[fidelis]

35: Shaking “instant” Polaroid photos to help them develop faster

Nah, that was for neophytes. My Dad would stick it under his armpit to make it develop faster.

[ShadowAce]

Clackers!!

[fwdude]

The 70’s saw a LOT of changes, many for the worst, but there was still enough accumulated moral capital to push back at the time. We were still a largely conservative country, with a fringe chihuahua nipping at our ankles.

[Mariner]

https://albumism.com/features/led-zeppelin-physical-graffiti-album-anniversary

spooky time

[Morgana]

Cartoons by Sid and Marty Krofft

Bellbottom jeans

Disco Duck

Evening news with Walter Cronkite

Roller Derby/Roller Disco

Bruce Jenner, Dorothy Hamil, Nadia Comăneci, Cathy Rigby were Olympic heros

Star Wars

Big wheel or Green Machine

Slime

Brady Bunch

[AppyPappy]

The 70’s were great because no one cared what we did. An ounce of Weed was $35, food and beer was cheap and there was no AIDS. We lived like kings.

[AppyPappy]

My son(29) has a mullet

[Fresh Wind]

Without disco, we might never have had punk rock.

[MayflowerMadam]

Best music INCLUDING disco, it was the “funnest”. :)

[bankwalker]

And no DUIs ...

[T.B. Yoits]

My son(29) has a mullet

My condolences

[Wuli]

These lists are just silly, and assume too many things were “common” to most people of the 70s, which is not true.

[9YearLurker]

I remember that stuff, but not having the goofy reactions to it all.

[Morgana]

There was AIDS in the 70’s but it was called GRID, or “Gay cancer” or “Gay plague”. By about 1977 it was already showing up in the gay community and I actually found some reports on it on youtube.

It was not overly reported back then because it was still mostly in the gay community. It was not until about 1983 when our blood supply was hit that more news started to get out.

[Rinnwald]

...but do not forget the cars!

Umm, no.

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.

[CodeToad]

The 70’s were fun. Today is about “challenges”.

[Semper Vigilantis]

I still sing Schoolhouse Rocks diddies in my head when I want to remember some arcane grammar rule.

[Semper Vigilantis]

The 70’s were great because no one cared what we did. An ounce of Weed was $35, food and beer was cheap and there was no AIDS. We lived like kings.

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