Quoting:
Charlie's Angels

End Quote

Hey, I used to play Charlie's Angels with my little sister and her friend. I always got stuck playing Sabrina. ;D

Quoting:
Upright Coke machines with the little door... the kind that you pulled an actual glass bottle from.
End Quote

My friend has one of those.  I've always thought soda just tastes better out of a glass bottle.

Quoting:
Agreed on the cartoons being much, much better back then. Oh and the TV shows were pretty good too. cs mentioned Charlie's Angels. Aaron Spelling had the right idea with his shows.
End Quote

What about:
Welcome, my dear guests!
I am your host Mr. Roarke.  Welcome to Fantasy Island!

De Plane!  De Plane!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know each of you reading this post are saying De Plane (out loud) the same way Tattoo used to.

Did anyone used to watch ZOOM?  (Boston, Mass 0-2-1-3-4 Send it to ZOOM!)  I'll bet Chucky caught that show.  I never could get that Ubby Dubby language down pat other than "Hubbi frubbends!"  

Quoting:
Agreed on the cartoons being much, much better back then. Oh and the TV shows were pretty good too. cs mentioned Charlie's Angels. Aaron Spelling had the right idea with his shows.
End Quote

That really is a matter of perspective.  People who were children in the '90s would probably say their cartoons were better then the cartoons of the '70s.

Ofcourse, since I was born in the mid-'70s, I was raised primarily on '80s cartoons.  With a few reruns of '70s cartoons like Superfriends and Fat Albert mixed in there.  Those were really cool.

BUT everyone knows that '80s cartoons were FAR SUPERIOR to every other decade.  ;)

For anyone who was a kid back then, these lines will be with us till the day we die---

By the Power of GraySkull, I have the power!

Autobots transform and roll out!

"You have failed me Galvatron. Ultra Magnus lives, on the planet of Junk.  Stalk him, tear him apart.....and DESTROY the matrix!!"

:)


I guess my favorite stuff from the '70s are The Six Million Dollar Man, Welcome Back Kotter and Starsky and Hutch.

Oh and '70s pornos.  They did them right back then!  :D

Quoting:
Saturday Morning Cartoons.

Waking up early Saturday morning and watching the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show, Scooby-Doo, Clue Club, etc.  The cartoons were so much better then.
End Quote

I agree, cartoons were a heck of a lot better then.  My dad and I used to get up and watch Bugs Bunny every Saturday.  Thank goodness for the Cartoon Network and Boomerang. ;D

Quoting:
Suzi Quatro!!!!!!!!  Devil Gate Drive is one of my all-time favourite songs.  

End Quote

I always liked Leather Tuscadero, too.

Quoting:
Upright Coke machines with the little door... the kind that you pulled an actual glass bottle from.
End Quote

;D

Quoting:
Mine:

1) (Always) Coca-Cola - The actual slogan then was "Coke Is it".

2) Music was very good in every genre! No complaints there at all.

3) Women wore dresses much more. They wore them casually out in the town running errands or out to dinner. The dresses reflected the sensuality of the styles of that era.

4) African-Americans wore their afros very proudly. There was nothing wrong with their hair being natural as opposed to it being chemically treated and straightened regularly out of sheer necessity because an afro would be out-of-the-question and an embarrasment. (Info. credited to a recent African-American poll.) I thought afros looked cool! I had a friend who always carried "AfroSheen" (in the black jar) with them everywhere.

5) Action Hero TV shows like The Green Hornet, Wonder Woman and Batman.


End Quote

Very well stated, Hairspray!  I miss a lot of the things you mentioned.  That was a good era for me, too.   ;)

Quoting:


Very well stated, Hairspray!  I miss a lot of the things you mentioned.  That was a good era for me, too.   ;)
End Quote

Why, Thank You Karen_M! I also realized just now how sad I felt about the closing of Studio 54. It was such a 70's Icon! One didn't necessarily have to be there to know the fun and exuberance of it all.

So, I'll add Studio 54 to the list.

Quoting:
But I was madly and passionately in love with Bill Bixby so anything he was in, I had to watch.
Cat
End Quote

I was too Cat!  But I was more in love with David Soul from Starsky & Hutch & John Schneider from Dukes of Hazzard! :D

Quoting:
Some of my favorite things from the 70's were the great horror movies.  The Exorcist, Omen, Carrie, Trilogy of Terror, Little Girl Down the Lane, Audrey Rose, Rosemary's Baby.........

They just don't make 'em like they used to.  Back then it was all about scaring the cr@p out of you......now, they more less just like to test people's fears of society.  Bring back Karen Black!  I can't even look at that woman without getting scared!  :o
End Quote

Ooohhh.. Trilogy of Terror.. The little african monster doll.. he gave me nightmares.. that .. and Karen Black's cockeyed stare.. She definitely gave me the willies... They really did do them right .. didn't they??

Quoting:
These are a few of my favorite things... (from the greatest era .. the 70's... )

1. Sid and Marty Kroft Supershow on Saturday mornings (Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Land of the Lost, Dr. Shrinker, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, Shazam, Isis)
2. GREASE
3. Bonne Bell Lipsmacker on the string (bubblegum flavor was the best.. )
4. Shaun Cassidy
5. Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys
6. All the great and I might add Diverse musical talents... (Stones, Zeppelin, Floyd, Bee Gees, Michael J, Andy Gibb, Can anyone say BAY CITY ROLLERS heh heh ... )
7. Love's Baby Soft Cologne
8. All the great toys of the 70's (before the computer era of course)
9. Rollerskating with the big fluffy pompoms on my skates...
10. My purple bike with the flowered banana seat and the white basket with the plastic flowers
11. Skateboards
12. The "Farrah" and "Dorothy Hamill" haircuts
13. Coppertone Suntan Lotion
14. Gauchos and Cowl Necks and Earth Shoes
15. 8 Tracks

End Quote

::) ::)From what I've seen,Dorothy hammil haircuts were usually worn by people it was unflattering on.Are there any statictics on how many gym teachers wore it?I think every school had at least 1 gym teacher who wore this styleCheerers!

Quoting:

::) ::)From what I've seen,Dorothy hammil haircuts were usually worn by people it was unflattering on.Are there any statictics on how many gym teachers wore it?I think every school had at least 1 gym teacher who wore this styleCheerers!
End Quote

Both the Farrah and Dorothy cuts were "not quite as it looks in the magazine" ... I remember my cousin got the Farrah Haircut (she was  a brunette... not that I think this mattered..) and she never got it to look like Farrah's even one single time. Me, I had the Marcia Brady look ... Or so I would like to think...  My other cousin was stuck with the Dorothy Cut and she , sadly , looked like her cereal bowl was used as a cap.  I think all of those hairstyles you had to be sure and back them up with lots of products... Aqua net, Final Net, and that tool of all tools... the Clairol Crazy Curl Curling Iron.. I remember I ended up losing the little tip of the curling iron that filled with water "to mist and set your curls" , so I'd always end up burning my finger when out of habit I would go to push the end and it wouldn't be there. Yeah, those were the days...  But you are right,  the Dorothy Do was a hideous don't...  ;)

Quoting:
I think I spent most of the 70s in front of the tube. I watched just about everything. The shows that I watched religiously were The Partridge Family, The Carol Burnette Show, Saturday Night Live (later in the decade).End Quote

I just saw some reruns of the Carol Burnette Show and I was splitting a gut almost the whole time.  :D  Too bad they don't make shows like that anymore.  Nobody wants to laugh out of fun anymore, they just want to laugh at other peoples misfortunes or people dumber than themselves (take any "reality" tv show and you caught my drift  :P ).

Carol Burnett, Vicky Lawrence, Harvey Korman and Tim Conway make a great combo.

From their 2002 anniversary show:
"- Do you use Viagra?"

"- The idea of my using Viagra would be like putting a brand new flagpole on a condemned building!"