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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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KEYWORDS: 70s
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To: DallasBiff

George Carlin


61 posted on 09/05/2025 2:45:07 PM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: OldGoatCPO

“The late Sixties and early Seventies were the era of the muscle cars. Mustang Mach I, Barracuda, Charger, 71 Super Bee, and Road Runner.”

And then there was the Pacer!


62 posted on 09/05/2025 2:45:25 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: DallasBiff

Is there a website which sells slide-rules? They were fun.


63 posted on 09/05/2025 2:47:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Maskot

That’s the one!


64 posted on 09/05/2025 2:54:33 PM PDT by Semper Vigilantis (A Free Press MAY distort the truth, but a Controlled Press WILL distort the truth.)
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To: DallasBiff

Quadrophenia
The Wall
Dark Side of the Moon
Black Sabbath
Let it Be
Layla
Aqualung
L.A. Woman
Fragile
Van Halen
Dire Straits
Breakfast in America

And that just scratches the surface.


65 posted on 09/05/2025 2:54:58 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: DallasBiff

66 posted on 09/05/2025 2:57:38 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin
Is there a website which sells slide-rules?

Yep, just Duck-Duck for them.

There is a web site somewhere that shows a K & E slide rule manufacturing engine. Good grief!!

67 posted on 09/05/2025 2:58:43 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Rinnwald
I do not disagree, but the question was the 1970s. 1970-1974 saw some fantastic cars, but after 1974, American automakers shot themselves in the foot. Even the 75 Corvette was not worth the money. I love watching old commercials and adverts for new cars from back then. Car manufacturers destroyed iconic brands with crap cars. Lee Iacocca is a perfect example: the 1960s, Mustang, Mercury Cougar, Lincoln Marquis, and other great cars. Then in 1971, he introduced the Ford Pinto, WTH! He went on to give us the Dodge Aspen and Plymouth Volare in the late 70s. Every vehicle he built after that sold well, but they were ugly, under powered, forgettable vehicles.
68 posted on 09/05/2025 2:59:30 PM PDT by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me)
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To: Maskot

“Cause those liberal freaks go too far!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSANTRnEBgg


69 posted on 09/05/2025 2:59:32 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: equaviator
> George Carlin <

George Carlin has been gone for many years now. Yet his words continue to offer wise guidance to American citizens:


70 posted on 09/05/2025 3:00:57 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: DallasBiff

71 posted on 09/05/2025 3:02:26 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ShadowAce

Puka shell necklaces.


72 posted on 09/05/2025 3:03:49 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin
K & E Dividing Engine
73 posted on 09/05/2025 3:05:03 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Windcatcher

Remember Odyssey, where you would put the plastic overlays over your TV?


74 posted on 09/05/2025 3:06:06 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

Mr. Jaws - Dickie Goodman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeYCOFblZRg&list=RDJeYCOFblZRg&start_radio=1


75 posted on 09/05/2025 3:06:54 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff
Sitting on the pier at Lake Huron, munching on smoked fish and drinking Vernors from a glass bottle.
76 posted on 09/05/2025 3:11:31 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: DallasBiff
Fotomat stores

Taco Bell eternal flame

Guys could wear cut-off jeans and not look gay for swimming and water skiing

Cruising

Legal in Texas to drink & drive

Swinging beer can/bottle holders for motorcycles

77 posted on 09/05/2025 3:11:58 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: GingisK

thank you


78 posted on 09/05/2025 3:13:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: DallasBiff

I remember all of those, except for the Metric Conversion Act of 1975. I was in college then, but I don’t recall that ever being discussed.


79 posted on 09/05/2025 3:14:13 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Tell It Right

Some of the best movies ever made came out in the 1970s.
Godfather 1 & 2
Jaws
Apocalypse Now
The Deer Hunter
Chinatown
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein


80 posted on 09/05/2025 3:18:10 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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