Posted on 12/22/2022 2:50:39 AM PST by DallasBiff
It was a decade that spawned the Sex Pistols and the Vietnam War, platform shoes and Saturday Night Fever.
The Seventies also gave us The Godfather and Space Hoppers but those glam rock years will forever live in the shadow of the Swinging Sixties.
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Okay, it was the communists that spawned the Vietnam war.
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I have a large collection of vintage stuff including Rubbermaid clothes baskets and hampers that go for big bucks online. I find them and buy them for a couple bucks. Going to sell off my entire collection this spring. My vintage Jean Nate collection is something to behold.
As much as I would have loved to see it, I just can't deal with hearing other singers doing Genesis songs. Phil and Peter's voices are so unique.
Close your eyes and you couldn’t tell the difference. Nad Sylvan, Swedish-American. He did crack us up, the way he glided off the stage like he was being pulled along a track, a fan blowing his long hair.
Yes, Dec. 12.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Margolin
So in June of 2021, we were in LA for 3 days staying in Hollywood. We had driven out to the Santa Monica Pier for dinner, and planned to go to Griffith Observatory to see the nighttime view. Headed back via Santa Monica Boulevard, the original US Route 66. There’s still quite a bit of older architecture along the route, and it kinda puts you in the mood. Had the radio on Sirius 70s channel, and all of a sudden we heard a phone ring, then Mike Post’s Rockford Files came blasting out of the speakers.
There was nothing to do but crank it up loud.
Never should have allowed the French to have their Indochina colonies back after WWII.
Who could forget Sonny? I didn’t know he was a POW. Sonny Elliott, Jack LaGoff, John Kelly & Marilyn Turner… lol!
I turned 8 in 1970, so growing up over that decade was AWESOME. The top 40 (At least in the first half of the decade) was always full of fun, catchy songs. And then as a teen in the second half, I caught up with all the great ROCK stuff that I’d missed in the first half.
There was MLB; The Cincinnati Reds, Baltimore Orioles, Oakland A’s and my beloved Detroit Tigers, who had a great final run in ‘72.
There was no PC. (And I don’t mean computers). We were still taught about the greatness of America. The rest of the world wanted to catch up and be like us.
As others have said, the cars were awesome (again, in the first half at least).
The styles were NOT as bad as they have been portrayed since the 90’s. Things were way cooler in reality.
Comedy was FUNNY. A lot of us learned it from Three Stooges re-runs.
Moms were still able to stay home. The exercise shows in the AM, a morning movie, the soaps, the after school re-run shows, the 4 o’clock movie, the news at 6, the evening sit-coms, 9 o’clock movie, news again at 11, the Late show and the Late, Late show..
Watergate only bothered me because the ridiculous, boring hearings pre-emoted my after school tv shows. Politics weren’t shoved in everything yet; if you wanted politics, you could find it.
How about the Friendly Giant on Canadian tv?
Looking back, the music was awful.
BINGO! Then taxes skyrocketed forcing them into the workplace and began the demise of the family structure.
CKLW. Nuff said
I had a Levis Tan Cordoroy jacket.
“I got a .22 for Christmas”
Kids drove to high school with guns in their vehicles. Especially during deer season. Probably half the boys had a gun in their car/truck in the parking lot.
Hot pants, mini, midi, and maxi skirts. Yes, I hit the discos in the seventies.
I worked for a few months in a men’s clothing store. Sold polyester double knit pants.
The 60s were bad years, too.
Attracted sweat and didn't breath meaning it stunk.
Rita Bell.
Bill Kennedy.
Hockey Night in Canada from channel 9 in Windsor.
Won’t mention the Windsor Ballet...
It was for me…:)
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