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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: Rinnwald

More than just 8 years :/ I’d point to the 1983 Thunderbird as when we first started climbing our way out, and engine technology didn’t really improve until 1986 and SEFI with EEC-IV.


41 posted on 09/05/2025 2:29:35 PM PDT by Windcatcher
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To: DallasBiff

I loved. I was 11 to 20 in the 70s.

Had a great time especially from 15 to 19.


42 posted on 09/05/2025 2:29:56 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: DallasBiff
11 Being oblivious to “stranger danger”
Not where I lived.
43 posted on 09/05/2025 2:31:30 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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To: DallasBiff

65-75 was my wheelhouse.


44 posted on 09/05/2025 2:32:19 PM PDT by ratzoe
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To: Rinnwald

1976 was the year that pollution control crap was mandated for cars ... downhill from there ...


45 posted on 09/05/2025 2:32:41 PM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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To: kaktuskid

I thought I’d died and gone to heaven when I first tasted an encherito. In fact driving by the same site today made me think of that 1975 treat when I was 17. Right after I’d picked up my pictures at Fotomat...seriously.


46 posted on 09/05/2025 2:32:57 PM PDT by F450-V10 (.)
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To: bankwalker

I still have my Bee Gees and the Saturday night fever records and play them to this day! They’re fabulous


47 posted on 09/05/2025 2:33:24 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: DallasBiff

One of the items on the list was Saturday morning cartoons.

My dad loved to sit with us and watch Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner. After my sister and I grew up and moved away, he still got up on Saturdays and turned on the cartoons.


48 posted on 09/05/2025 2:33:53 PM PDT by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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To: Maskot

and Donna Summer ...


49 posted on 09/05/2025 2:35:12 PM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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To: DallasBiff

50 posted on 09/05/2025 2:35:12 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: DallasBiff

#39 “Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland’s Thompson gun ...”

#40 “Blew out my flip-flop, stepped on a pop-top ...”


51 posted on 09/05/2025 2:35:16 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: bankwalker

The 1970’s was the perfect storm for cars. We had the gas crunch, 5mph bumper mandates, and pollution controls. On Ed’s Auto Reviews he has a recent video where he goes over the catastrophic effect the 5mph bumpers had (like the Ford-style battering-ram bumpers that could down a tank).


52 posted on 09/05/2025 2:36:02 PM PDT by Windcatcher
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To: Larry Lucido

Hah!


53 posted on 09/05/2025 2:36:16 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Semper Vigilantis

🎶 “Conjunction junction, what’s your function? You got and, but and or, they’ll get ya pretty far” 🎶


54 posted on 09/05/2025 2:36:39 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: bankwalker

> And no DUIs ... <

And that was, of course, an enormous oversight. DUI drivers are trash. They kill.

And I’m not speaking from a position of moral superiority. Back in those days, I was once pulled over for poor driving. It was after midnight. And I was drunk. I got just a warning, and was told to please drive more carefully.

I should have been arrested. And I certainly would have been today. I understand how lucky I was. I didn’t hurt anybody, and I did not end up in jail.

Since then, I’ve never had even a single drink then got behind the wheel.


55 posted on 09/05/2025 2:37:15 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: bankwalker

Oh definitely


56 posted on 09/05/2025 2:37:48 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: DallasBiff

I hitchhiked well into the nineties. Spent three days in a Little Rock police substation jail cell, came off first best in a fight to retain my bag against three Hispanic young fellows in California. Found myself on a desert road in New Mexico with NO traffic at night and set and stoked a tumbleweed fire atop the adjacent overpass until a police car came out from the nearest town and carried me to the road I should have been on. Nearly froze on a highway at night in Wyoming in November. Got out of a moving car in Alabama when the driver suddenly became threatening.


57 posted on 09/05/2025 2:38:05 PM PDT by arthurus (| covfeve | -(Cc-?)
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To: Leaning Right

I got hit once by a drunk driver. I was so glad I was driving a ‘72 Torino and he was in an ‘85 Taurus. It was like a PT boat hitting a battleship!


58 posted on 09/05/2025 2:38:25 PM PDT by Windcatcher
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To: DallasBiff
They have #50 as the TV test pattern. I much rather they had mentioned the High Flight sign off at the end of the broadcast day.
59 posted on 09/05/2025 2:42:11 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: DallasBiff

“Dave’s not here” 😏


60 posted on 09/05/2025 2:43:14 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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