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. ☹️
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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Who can forget the Bicentennial? Next year we will be celebrating our semi-quincentennial! So glad Trump will be leading the festivities.
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. ☹️
Nah, that was for neophytes. My Dad would stick it under his armpit to make it develop faster.
Clackers!!
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.
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
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.
My son(29) has a mullet
Without disco, we might never have had punk rock.
Best music INCLUDING disco, it was the “funnest”. :)
And no DUIs ...
My condolences
These lists are just silly, and assume too many things were “common” to most people of the 70s, which is not true.
I remember that stuff, but not having the goofy reactions to it all.
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.
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.
The 70’s were fun. Today is about “challenges”.
I still sing Schoolhouse Rocks diddies in my head when I want to remember some arcane grammar rule.
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