Family vacations in the station wagon, also used for the drive-in.
Hippity-hops.
Chatty Cathy or Chrissie.
There were still drug stores with soda fountians.
Liquor and beer were bought at the beer depot.
Gas lines in the 70's.
'61 class of '79 here.
Monty Python came on the public tv station (after 10:00p.m. because the humor was considered too risque' for prime time). My friends and I absolutely LIVED for it. The next day at school we would repeat/act out every line. Great stuff.
Had several Pink Floyd albums on 8-track: "...And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes------WHIRRRRRR---WHIRRRR--CLICK--CLICK----...I'll see you on the dark side of the moon."
The other day I asked my 14 year old daughter to pick up the phone and 'dial a number' for me. She said, "What do you mean by 'dial'?"
What, ME worry? (Alfred E. Neuman's motto) Do you remember SICK magazine? CRACKED magazine?
I also remember sneaking to listen to my dad's old REDD FOXX and MOMS MABLEY records. Back then that was some very BLUE stuff that they did.
Do you remember having to turn the television on a few minutes ahead of time, to let the 'tubes warm up'?
3.2 Beer, Any car made by AMC, stacking the beer cans on top of the car at the drive-in.....
I turned 38 yesterday. I thought about the terror sex and the anticipated baby boom the news people are talking about. I was a Cuban Missile Crisis baby. My Dad was at MacDill AFB in Tampa navigating the planes with the "big as cars" nukes on board.
When you look in my baby book there are several large clippings of JFK and John-John. I was a new-born when he was killed.
My kindergarten year we were stationed at Clark AFB in the Phillippines. My Dad was always meeting my Uncles and cousins on their way to Viet Nam. They'd have a drink together at the officer's club. I remember our house being tear gassed in the middle of the night. We think one of our guys had gotten out of hand at the local bar. The MP's subdued him with gas but the breeze carried it to us. We had a 15 year old live-in nanny. She raised us while my Mom had a nervous break down.
I'm sure y'all had the same experiences.
30 years ago we moved to South Carolina and things are tame. I still have my bicentennial Schwinn 10 speed. I remember Kiddles and Crissie dolls, and dressing preppy and drinking beer legally at 18.
I visited the WTC when I participated in an exchange program with Manhassett HS. They knew about grits but boiled peanuts and southern style BBQ were a surprise.
I vividly remember the Sunoco NFL sticker book from 1972 or '73 mentioned in the previous thread. I made my dad stop for gas at every single Sunoco station we could find driving down from Milwaukee to Orlando that winter. I eventually had the full set.
I remember when Punk & New Wave were in their infancy. I recall sitting in the backseat of Rick Geil's car on a warm summer morning in between Sunday School & Church the very first time I heard Gary Numan's "Cars" on the radio. Punk music scared me at first, but I was immediately intrigued by the unique synth sound of new wave.
And contrary to what was posted earlier, I looked back fondly on the music of the Beatles. I was blissfully ignorant of any of the social controversey surrounding them. To this day, my favorite music remains the Beatles and Beatlesque bands (Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Crowded House/Neil Finn, Jellyfish, Michael Penn, the Rembrandts, etc.).
Beyond music, I remember leaving school early to go to a dentist's appointment, getting in my mom's car and hearing the news that Ronald Reagan had been shot. It marked the only time I can ever remember listening to news radio rather than elevator music while sitting in a dentist's chair.
I posted some of this on the earlier thread, but was having so much fun, I reorganized it and added a bunch of stuff.
1 cent Bazooka Joe, 5 cent baseball cards,10 cent ice cream off the truck,12 cent Marvel Comics, 19 cent kites, 29 cent Little Golden Books, 49 cent vinyl singles, and Rawlings baseballs for a buck.
Being too young for the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, but old enough to watch the cartoon on Saturday Morning.
"PF Flyers... they make you run faster and jump higher."
Captain Satellite on channel 2, and Hocus Pocus on channel 11.
Walking to school unsupervised when you were 5.
Trick or Treating unsupervised when you were 6.
Having to freeze like a statue at Simonds Elementary when recess was over. Coudn't move untile the yard duty teacher blew her whistle. This was to prevent us from getting hurt "running back to class." Really.
6 1/2 oz. Cokes in glass bottles.
Space Ghost, back when he was King of the Universe... We used to make Space Ghost "power bands" out of punched out McDonald's cups. (Remember 18 cent French Fries?)
Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots, Creepy Crawlers, GI Joe, 007 Toy guns, Hot Wheels, Duncan Yo-Yos, and Nerf Balls.
Fleagle, Bingo, Drooper, and Snorky.
Ginger in her evening gown, Mary Ann in her short shorts, Jeannie in her bottle, Catwoman in her catsuit, and... Yvonne Craig as Batgirl!
Agent 99... LOVE Barbara Feldon's voice.
Love American Style.
Laugh-In.
Star Trek, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel, Wild Wild West, Man from U.N.C.L.E., GIRL from U.N.C.L.E.!
Dark Shadows... Oooooo.
Kick the Can, all summer long.
Smeer the Queer, all winter long.
Mad Magazine.
Wacky Packs.
Five birthdays a year at Farrell's. (Free ice cream!)
Double Session at Bret Harte Jr. High.
Skipping out of class and not freezing... The Day it Snowed.
A triple feature with "Tidal Wave" (Japanese disaster flick with Lorne Greene spliced in), "Bug (giant, fire starting, telepathic cockroaches from the center of the Earth), And "Devil's Rain" (Ernest Borginine, William Shatner, and Doug McClure in a molten Satanic thriller... with Anton LaVey as technical advisor). We could run in and out between flicks to the last standing Golden Arches in San Jose... And it's still there, at Curtner and Almaden.
Remember the McDonald's 20th Anniversary celebration in 1975, when hamburgers were 15 cents for the weekend? I must have eaten 20.
Jack in the Box, when they blew up the Clown.
Dine and Dash at the local Sambo's (and you thought the NAACP put them out of biz?)
Creature Feature, with Bob Wilkins.
Dusty's Treehouse, Romper Room and Hobo Kelly.
Bill Graham presents... "Day on the Green" at the Oakland Coliseum... AC/DC, Van Halen, Pat Travers, Foreigner, and Aerosmith. July 26th, 1978...
Yet another "Day on the Green".... Peter Tosh, Eddie Money, Santana, and the Rolling Stones.
"Dude! It's Mick's 34th Birthday, and Kieth is facing 10 years Toronto... We GOTTA go! Could easily be their last show."
34 was SO frickin' OLD.
The thread would be more fun if you didn't make up fairy tale history like this.
Quisp cereal, my parents fondue craze, seeing the original Saturday Night Lives as a teenager and not being sure what was going to happen, Steve Martin, drugs galore, Cheech and Chong.
Being excited about getting our first color TV, bowling and wrestling on Sundays, three channels on TV, the Detroit Tigers from the 70's I can still remember without trying (Al Kaline, Jim Northrup, Mickey Lolich, Eddie Brinkman, Aurelio Rodriquez, Norm Cash, Bill Freehan, Rusty Stub, Willie Horton, Mark "The Bird" Fidyrich.)
Watching Brady Bunch BEFORE it was on re-runs (followed, of course, by The Partridge Family)
Shaun Cassidy? pah! Parker Stevenson from Hardy Boys!
Reading Amityville Horror at age 11 and then waking up at 1:15am scared to death!
5 kids stuffed into the back of a 1968 Ford Galaxie 500 (we finally got a wagon when #6 was born.....)
Star Wars trading cards
King Kong trading cards
Charlie's Angels
Not being allowed to watch Happy Days because there was necking on it
The frogmen that retrieved the astronauts from the water
When AM radio used to play MUSIC
The Carpenters
A banana seat on my bicycle
The Bicentennial
Does anyone else remember The Freedom Train that was a train that was a museum of Americana?
Not being able to "feather" my wavy hair :(
Jimmy Carter
Speed Racer
The Band "M"
The Posiedon Adventure
Evel Kneival
ABC's Wide World of Sports
"School's out forever...."
When we got our first color set, the first show we watched was the old BIll Cosby show... the one where he was a PE teacher.
All the 70's sucked. Jimmy Carter SUCKED.
I remember registering to vote in 1978. Voted for Reagan when I was 18. Still have the ballot stubs.
Hippies sucked and still suck. I feel like every single single thing that movement touched is still rotting away within the soul of our country.
Nostalgia sucks. This thread is pretty much something a hippy would spend a lot of time doing.
I did like Monty Python, even though they were all a bunch of hippies.
"He's not dead, He's just pining for the fjords." ;-)
I went to a VERY un-PC Texas High School in the 70's.
We had 'Slave Day', where the teachers and seniors got auctioned off to the rest of the students for a day. We got to dress them in silly costumes, and they had to carry our books from class to class.
We also had the 'Redneck Rodeo' - the biggest event was where 'kickers' would save their Skoal cans all year, stack and glue them together, and jump over them on tricycles.
The only soap opera I ever watched- Dark Shadows
Smokie and the Bandit
Goldie Hawn (hot hot hot)
Electric race car sets
Five speed bike with banana seat and chopper fork
I have read through both threads and I have been trying to think of something new.... how about gasoline that was $ .33 per gallon..... and saying "I will NEVER pay $1.00 for gasoline! I will park my car before I will pay that!" Someone mentioned fashions: everything from the 70's is back again including hip huggers, bell bottoms, "love" beads, afros (yes, they are back on the college campus), platform shoes, Navy P. Coats, purses with fringe, etc...
We only received 3 tv stations, NBC, CBS, and ABC.... Sundays were all sports... horrible for a kid..until 6:00 and Walt Disney came on...!
If you got in trouble at school, you were REALLY in trouble once you got home.....
Most of us grew up in households with two parents, we had rules to abide by, schools still honored the 10 Commandments and we prayed in public school, we said Grace before dinner and went to Church on Sunday, we showed respect to adults. We lived on the edge of war - either Korea, Cuba, or Vietnam..... we grew up knowing there was a price for liberty and we loved our country. I can't, for the life of me, understand how the GenX'ers who keep trashing us have come up with this "boomers are all hippies and the cause of all the problems on earth" crap.....