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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Yeah, that one I have to take issue with.
At school we had to watch some weird cartoon about how you never go anywhere with a stranger. That was early 70s.
I looked it up. The first "stranger danger" film was in 1949.
And of course there are plenty of fairy tales that tell what happens to naughty little children who wander off.
Age 3 to 13 during the 70’s.
It was awesome.
Then the 80’s came....
:)
This is not a list of commons, it is a list of historical facts.
I bought a 69 GTO with 58K miles on it in 1977 for $250. Ran it hard for years, sold it to pay for a babys birth and hospital care.
“everybody who was alive during the 1970s can agree on”
Wow! What a conceited jerk. First, age in the 70s makes a difference. I was in my late 20s, early 30s. My experience was different from teens in that decade. And teens’ experience was different from grammar school kids.
Income, religion, geography were different. Many could not afford cars, phones, or TVs, etc. Their experience was different from those who had “modern” appliances.
Many chose to not have modern appliances.
Nixon-Ford-Carter was in upheaval. Some were wedded to the past. Others chose different directions for the future.
There was no “everybody”.
“everybody who was alive during the 1970s can agree on”
Wow! What a conceited jerk. First, age in the 70s makes a difference. I was in my late 20s, early 30s. My experience was different from teens in that decade. And teens’ experience was different from grammar school kids.
Income, religion, geography were different. Many could not afford cars, phones, or TVs, etc. Their experience was different from those who had “modern” appliances.
Many chose to not have modern appliances.
Nixon-Ford-Carter was in upheaval. Some were wedded to the past. Others chose different directions for the future.
There was no “everybody”.
Being TOTALLY freaked out by Renee Richards.
Had a ‘68 Mercury Cougar GT-E with a 427 and Hurst manual transmission. So much fun to drive until a snowplow hit me in a blizzard in 1979. Men don’t fall in love with women, but we fall in love with our first car!
“There was AIDS in the 70’s”
Yes, altho not always called that. I was an insurance investigator. Insurance companies were (rightly) afraid of the “homo risk”.
“”””Many could not afford cars, phones, or TVs, etc.””””
I sure didn’t see much of that when I was selling encyclopedias door to door in black areas and my first question was, do you have a phone, and everyone had a TV.
Few freaks on FR
Not surprising
“Men don’t fall in love with women, but we fall in love with our first car!”
I fell in love three times before my first car.
My 65 XKE was my 5th.
The 1985/86 Ford Taurus is viewed as the model that ended the malaise. It utilized the quality controls processes from Edwards Deming, and offered outstanding ergonomics, viable front wheel drive, fuel injection, and composite headlights (composite headlights were already approved overseas but not in the U.S.). The SHO engine offered double overhead cams and four valves per cylinder among other things.
“What a conceited jerk.”
“There was no ‘everybody’.”
I’m CERTAIN that wasn’t meant to taken literally.
“I agree with you ... Disco was awesome.”
It was! “Disco Inferno” - spent a lot of time dancing to that.
‘60s music was/is more iconic by order of magnitude
I was born in the 70s so much of it passed me buy before I could remember anything. Some things I do remember:
Atari - we had one.
rotary phone - we had a kids’ line and my parent’s line
The 6 million dollar man - I remember it....complete with its cheeseball sound effects.
Simon Says - yes of course I remember it.
Saturday Morning Cartoons - just the greatest. I still love Bugs Bunny
Sunscreen - I remember coppertone...and zinc oxide.
Schoolhouse Rock - bring it back. It was great.
Pop Rocks - yep. I remember them.
Rabbit ears on TVs....no remote....only 4 channels. I remember it all including the arguments over whose turn it was to get up and change the channel.
Tang....yep. I remember it. Loaded with sugar.
metal lunch boxes...every kid in school had them.
The 1970’s was the beginning of the government regulating everything.
Saturday nights on PBS
The Two Ronnies
Benny Hill
The Goodies
Monty Python
Doctor Who
The Star Hustler
Good Times
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