80sfan is copying people! Eh?  ;D ;D ;D ;D

80sfan is copying people! Eh?  ;D ;D ;D ;D


I think of the 1970's.  Thought at my age I should be specific!  ;)

70s I was there!

-Lord Lucan
-John Stonehouse
-Virginia Wade
-Edward Heath

Led Zeppelin
Elton John
Rolling Stones
Genesis
Pink Floyd
Brady Bunch
Partridge family
Six million dollar man
Bionic woman
Charlie's angels
Stevie Wonder
Olivia Newton John
Mash
Waltons
All in the family
Afros
Vietnam
Watergate
Montreal Olympics
Mark Spitz
Olga Korbut
Nadia Comaneci
Richard Nixon
Disco sucks
Fonzie
Deep Purple
Frampton comes alive
Grease
Saturday night fever
Abba

Led Zeppelin
Elton John
Rolling Stones
Genesis
Pink Floyd
Brady Bunch
Partridge family
Six million dollar man
Bionic woman
Charlie's angels
Stevie Wonder
Olivia Newton John
Mash
Waltons
All in the family
Afros
Vietnam
Watergate
Montreal Olympics
Mark Spitz
Olga Korbut
Nadia Comaneci
Richard Nixon
Disco sucks
Fonzie
Deep Purple
Frampton comes alive
Grease
Saturday night fever
Abba

-Banana Splits

-Banana Splits


Yes! Scooby Doo too, Josie and the pussycats.

Yes! Scooby Doo too, Josie and the pussycats.
The Wombles, Hong Kong Phooey

This coke commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1NeogMh1JI

This coke commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1NeogMh1JI


How the times have changed, I do not drink Coca-Cola now.

-Monty Python's Flying Circus
-The Goodies
-Fawlty Towers
-the last two series of Steptoe and Son

Nice weather.

70s I was there!


I was there too!

Evel Knievel
Archie Bunker
Star Wars
Kent State shootings
Chappaquidick
Munich massacre at the 1972 Olympics
Beatles solo careers
Mary Tyler Moore
Carol Burnett
The Carpenters
Bread
Color TV

Nice weather.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XsVALQtGIZM/TBv5aRTtpAI/AAAAAAAAQ-4/AhGinFQ6H2I/s1600/Pan-25539+Herzog+Heat.jpg

I was there too!

Evel Knievel
Archie Bunker
Star Wars
Kent State shootings
Chappaquidick
Munich massacre at the 1972 Olympics
Beatles solo careers
Mary Tyler Moore
Carol Burnett
The Carpenters
Bread
Color TV

CE3K

How the times have changed, I do not drink Coca-Cola now.


I don't drink much pop (soft drinks) either anymore. To much sugar, need to care for my health. I'm not young anymore.

Nice weather.


;D

Introduction of electronic calculators in the school classroom

I was there too ... in my crib, but I was still there!

The 70s for me is summed up in one word:  Disco.  It's what I first think of when I hear the 70s, but not the only thing I eventually think of ...

Three's Company.  Alot of people see it more as an 80s show (it did run longer in the 80s), but what they forget was it started as a mid-season replacement in 1977.  Alot of those shows of the era always made it seem like people who lived in apartments worked just to have a roof over their head (aka bed to sleep in) and food to eat.  They always went out instead of staying in.  They never really bought material possessions.  The apartment was basically just a temporary place to be until they got to work or the place they always hung out at (in this case, The Regal Beagle).  That's something I always put with 70s TV shows, even though I know shows with situations like that existed both before and after that decade

Badfinger
Terry Jacks
The Sweet
Mike Oldfield and Tubular Bells

How the times have changed, I do not drink Coca-Cola now.


I drink Coca-Cola once in a while.

disco ball
Village People
What's Happening?
Blaxpoitation films

Bellbottoms
Long hair
Hippies
and this.....
http://i590.photobucket.com/albums/ss344/67Ramshorn/DSCF00204.jpg

Disco
Saturday Night Fever
Star Wars
Posters
Black lights
Cannabis
Mood rings
Bell bottoms
Afros
Tainted sunglasses
Classic rock hits
The Bee Gees
Charlie's Angels
The "Farrah" cut
fondues
The Hustle
Muscle cars
The Gas Crisis
Olympics '76
Watergate
Nixon resigns
The end of Vietnam
Women's lib

Going to add a few more:

"Have a nice day" with smiley faces.
"Keep truckin'"
Key parties
Porno

Strikes
Energy Crisis
Totally p*iss-poor governments
Flared trousers
Insufferably long hot summer of 1976

(in short, all that was possibly wrong!)

Red Rum

Introduction of electronic calculators in the school classroom


I was a High School senior from Sep. 1976 to Jun 1977.  My parents bought me one of the "brand new" electronic calculator devices which put a big smile on my face.  I was taking some advanced math and science classes, hoping to put it to use, but at the beginning of the school year, my teacher told us something like this:  "Some of you may have gotten these brand new electronic calculators over the summer.  Great!  Well, they are not allowed in my class.  But you are welcome to continue to use your slide rule!"  :D  ;D

80sfan is copying people! Eh?  ;D ;D ;D ;D


You can still create one for the 60s, 90s...


I was a High School senior from Sep. 1976 to Jun 1977.  My parents bought me one of the "brand new" electronic calculator devices which put a big smile on my face.  I was taking some advanced math and science classes, hoping to put it to use, but at the beginning of the school year, my teacher told us something like this:  "Some of you may have gotten these brand new electronic calculators over the summer.  Great!  Well, they are not allowed in my class.  But you are welcome to continue to use your slide rule!"  :D  ;D


Yeah, we also switched from slide rules to calculators in the mid 1970s. We also switched to the metric system (here) in the 1970s. Lots of changes.

When I think of the '70s, the first ideas that come to my mind are sunshine and the color yellow. Maybe it's because it was fashionable to wear your hair long and unstyled, and by association I think of playfulness, fun, and the outdoors. 

Or maybe it's because photographs had that ugly yellow tint.  :P

There's a very "post-60s" vibe about the '70s, like The Sixties continued until around 1981 or so.

1965-1980 seems like one big decade to me, what comes after around 1981 seems like a conservative backlash against the counter-culture.

Les Crane's Desiderata

We also switched to the metric system (here) in the 1970s. Lots of changes.


As did we - but the only thing that really stuck was the abolition of the rather confusing British pre-decimal currency system (don't even go there!)

To this day, a good proportion of us are still more comfortable with inches, yards, pints, pounds and ounces!

Going to add a few more:

"Have a nice day" with smiley faces.
"Keep truckin'"
Key parties
Porno


Oh you mean 70's porn? Like Debbie Does Dallas?  :D

When I think of the '70s, the first ideas that come to my mind are sunshine and the color yellow. Maybe it's because it was fashionable to wear your hair long and unstyled, and by association I think of playfulness, fun, and the outdoors. 

Or maybe it's because photographs had that ugly yellow tint.  :P


Yellow must've been the "in" style back in those days.

Afros
Bell Bottoms
Hawaiian Shirts

As I read through this I noticed that most are just posting things that occurred during the 70's. Is
this what really goes through your mind when you hear the 70's? Not my mind.....I don't think about
Nixon or Watergate or Vietnam or any of that other crap. I was 8 years old in 1970 and I was 17 in '79.
In the early part of 70's I was thinking about getting to the ball field and playing whatever sport was
in season at the time. In the latter part of the 70's I was thinking about getting to the ball field to get
a good make out spot before they were all taken. What comes to mind when I here the 70's.....Cheryl,
Donna, Eileen, Janine and Debbie. Pabst, Yuengling, (When they were cheap and not trendy.) Piels and
Genny Cream. ELP, concerts and things of questionable legality.

As I read through this I noticed that most are just posting things that occurred during the 70's. Is this what really goes through your mind when you hear the 70's? Not my mind.....I don't think about Nixon or Watergate or Vietnam or any of that other crap. I was 8 years old in 1970 and I was 17 in '79.  In the early part of 70's I was thinking about getting to the ball field and playing whatever sport was in season at the time. In the latter part of the 70's I was thinking about getting to the ball field to get a good make out spot before they were all taken. What comes to mind when I here the 70's.....Cheryl, Donna, Eileen, Janine and Debbie. Pabst, Yuengling, (When they were cheap and not trendy.) Piels and Genny Cream. ELP, concerts and things of questionable legality.


Time to get personal, eh?  Keeping in mind that throughout much of the 70's my family lived on a farm house, then check this out (ours was light gray):

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQOdLKASyi87soEYKAs1iv8cQOtWQ9vGcGjc2N8_Wsu8Da-ipY

So picture me and my two brothers sitting around the big kitchen table, ('74ish) cassette rolling in "record" mode.  The three of us had decided to re-enact Cheech n Chong's "Sister Mary Elephant" and record it for posterity.  We used a kitchen butter knife for some of the sound effects.  We butchered our way through the re-enactment, and darn it, we did a pretty good job.  That kept us amused for about a week!  Of course after we were done naturally we'd go outside and play - as we often did - us being older, it was probably basketball or football.  Or perhaps a jam session listening to my brother (an electric guitar genius) and occasionally one or more assorted friends.  Or if it was too dark we'd pile up around the TV for a round of spectacular 70's sitcoms (or variety shows).  No internet, no cell phones, but we didn't mind.  8)

Spirograph

View Master
2XL
70's Record Player
Fisher Price Camera
Master Mind

A safer and better place to live.

Time to get personal, eh?  Keeping in mind that throughout much of the 70's my family lived on a farm house, then check this out (ours was light gray):

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQOdLKASyi87soEYKAs1iv8cQOtWQ9vGcGjc2N8_Wsu8Da-ipY

So picture me and my two brothers sitting around the big kitchen table, ('74ish) cassette rolling in "record" mode.  The three of us had decided to re-enact Cheech n Chong's "Sister Mary Elephant" and record it for posterity.  We used a kitchen butter knife for some of the sound effects.  We butchered our way through the re-enactment, and darn it, we did a pretty good job.  That kept us amused for about a week!  Of course after we were done naturally we'd go outside and play - as we often did - us being older, it was probably basketball or football.  Or perhaps a jam session listening to my brother (an electric guitar genius) and occasionally one or more assorted friends.  Or if it was too dark we'd pile up around the TV for a round of spectacular 70's sitcoms (or variety shows).  No internet, no cell phones, but we didn't mind.  8)


Great job, sounds like fun. See, now I'd rather read this than read a generic list of crap that we all know happened.

Bee Gees
Disco Inferno
Strobe Lights
Platform Shoes

Pele

Whiskey and steak and Sambuca at Chatsworth!

Yeah, there is a story. Four friends and I went on a weekend camping trip to Chatsworth, NJ. Our supplies for the
the weekend were as follows: 1 keg of Miller Lite, A fifth of Sambuca, 1lb of hamburger, 12 cans of baked beans,
5 sirloin steaks, 1lb of bacon, 1 dozen eggs, a case of pretzels, a case of Doritos, a jar of instant coffee, an acoustic
guitar, a harmonica, two buckets and a drum pad.

Our garage band, The Drunkards, were formed on this trip. The first line was a song we had written to commemorate
the event. By Saturday night we were almost out of beer, out of Sambuca and pretty much miserable. Chuck picked
up his guitar at started playing "My Generation by The Who." I started tapping along on the buckets and drum pad while
Jack wailed away on the harmonica. I can only imagine what this sounded like... we were totaled. But the rest of the
campground must have loved it. All the campers were in our cabin singing and dancing and playing or pounding on any-
thing they could find. Better still, they all brought alcohol, this is where the whiskey comes in...What a weekend

Time to get personal, eh?  Keeping in mind that throughout much of the 70's my family lived on a farm house, then check this out (ours was light gray):

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQOdLKASyi87soEYKAs1iv8cQOtWQ9vGcGjc2N8_Wsu8Da-ipY

So picture me and my two brothers sitting around the big kitchen table, ('74ish) cassette rolling in "record" mode.  The three of us had decided to re-enact Cheech n Chong's "Sister Mary Elephant" and record it for posterity.  We used a kitchen butter knife for some of the sound effects.  We butchered our way through the re-enactment, and darn it, we did a pretty good job.  That kept us amused for about a week!


Win.  Today it's done with YouTube parodies and re-enactments, a while ago it was done on videotape, but before that there was the tape recorder.  I was somewhere between the shift from audio to video.  The video was pretty much impossible to edit with consumer gear and we gave up pretty quickly, but at with audio we just rewound the tape and everyone shuffled their Monty Python printouts back to the first page and tried again.  (And every time we failed, we laughed harder, until we just let the tape roll, and the next three minutes of it was nothing more than a second or two of silence before the first word on the page resulted in peals of helpless and unhinibited laughter.)

Blooper reels are magic because they're funny whether they're done by famous professionals or bored nerds.  I wish I knew where ours ended up.

A safer and better place to live.


A softer, kinder, gentler time. 

You wouldn't think so by leafing through the newspapers, but there was more hope and less cynicism.  I only had a child's view of it, and subsequent matching childhood perceptions with adult understandings, but I think it was the sunset of the post-war prosperity that, even among the bombings and the punk rock, there was more emphasis on the greater good and human rights than individualism and greed.

Time to get personal, eh?  Keeping in mind that throughout much of the 70's my family lived on a farm house, then check this out (ours was light gray):

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQOdLKASyi87soEYKAs1iv8cQOtWQ9vGcGjc2N8_Wsu8Da-ipY

So picture me and my two brothers sitting around the big kitchen table, ('74ish) cassette rolling in "record" mode.  The three of us had decided to re-enact Cheech n Chong's "Sister Mary Elephant" and record it for posterity.  We used a kitchen butter knife for some of the sound effects.  We butchered our way through the re-enactment, and darn it, we did a pretty good job.  That kept us amused for about a week!  Of course after we were done naturally we'd go outside and play - as we often did - us being older, it was probably basketball or football.  Or perhaps a jam session listening to my brother (an electric guitar genius) and occasionally one or more assorted friends.  Or if it was too dark we'd pile up around the TV for a round of spectacular 70's sitcoms (or variety shows).  No internet, no cell phones, but we didn't mind.  8)


OMG! We used to do exactly the same thing.  My sister was particularly adept at sketch comedy....they both were, actually.  Cheech & Chong were a big inspiration, but no less were Monty Python, Firesign Theater, Smothers Brothers, and Frank Zappa.  She did a send-up of an Anita Bryant special, which would STILL be funny today if you replaced Anita Bryant with Sarah Palin!  It was great fun doing skits and mock interviews and so forth.  Much more fun than today, even with everybody carrying a mini-TV studio in their front pocket.  Why?  Because we weren't competing with anybody.  Yeah, nobody but us heard it, but there wasn't this pressure to get "hits" like on Youtube. 

My oldest sister liked to do this bizarre thing she called "Mix-Mox" where she would take all the records in the house and record snippets of them, mixed with sounds from around the house, the farm, and the town.  We didn't know it was a respected art form called "musique concrète," invented by Pierre Schaeffer on French radio 30 years earlier!

Beatles Break Up
Computer Floppy Disks Introduced
Palestinian Group Hijacks Five Planes
Kent State Shootings

A softer, kinder, gentler time. 

You wouldn't think so by leafing through the newspapers, but there was more hope and less cynicism.  I only had a child's view of it, and subsequent matching childhood perceptions with adult understandings, but I think it was the sunset of the post-war prosperity that, even among the bombings and the punk rock, there was more emphasis on the greater good and human rights than individualism and greed.


I don't know about that, the '70s seems like a very troubled decade, there was the divorce "revolution", traditional institutions of all kinds were attacked and disintegrated(Watergate represents this best), children were less protected and more neglected, the '73 recession and inflation, gas lines, paranoia about environmental catastrophe, more blatant racism and homophobia, various violent youth protests earlier in the decade, and most of all higher crime rates and drug abuse.

It is said by some historians that the late 1960s and 1970s were the fourth great awakening in US history, former awakenings include the first great awakening(1730s-1740s), the second great awakening(1820s-1830s), and the third great awakening(1890-1910), these were all periods of immense cultural upheaval, social experimentation, and social consciousness/reform.

 

I really think that is TODAY not the 70's.  Yes, inflation but.... It was a great time as a child.  I love the 70's.

I really think that is TODAY not the 70's.  Yes, inflation but.... It was a great time as a child.  I love the 70's.


What I'm really getting at is that things have stabilized since the social flux of the the 1960s, for all the economic troubles and political polarization we have today there are many improvements like much lower youth crime rates, lower drug abuse, lower teen pregnancy, cleaner cities, and more tolerance for minorities that can't be denied. I think too many people are just too given to negative media sensationalism in spite of these positive trends

Increasingly gory horror films
Watergate and Nixon
Early punk
Early metal
Stoners
Bell-bottoms
Weed, lot's of weed
End of the the Hippie era
Disco
Rudy Ray Moore and crazy blaxploitation films
The SuperSonics Championship (What can I say? I'm from Seattle)
Beginnings of goth rock (Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi's Dead" came out in 1979) and new wave (Gary Numan and Tubeway Army's "Are 'Friends' Electric" came out in '79 too)
Dario Argento's first movies

Dario Argento's first movies


I know it's release was in 1980 but did you see "Inferno"?

I only watched the movie because it was scored by Keith Emerson. Turned out to be a pretty good movie.

Bruce Lee
Saturday Night Live
Hai Karate
Atari

I don't know about that, the '70s seems like a very troubled decade, there was the divorce "revolution", traditional institutions of all kinds were attacked and disintegrated(Watergate represents this best), children were less protected and more neglected, the '73 recession and inflation, gas lines, paranoia about environmental catastrophe, more blatant racism and homophobia, various violent youth protests earlier in the decade, and most of all higher crime rates and drug abuse.

It is said by some historians that the late 1960s and 1970s were the fourth great awakening in US history, former awakenings include the first great awakening(1730s-1740s), the second great awakening(1820s-1830s), and the third great awakening(1890-1910), these were all periods of immense cultural upheaval, social experimentation, and social consciousness/reform.




That's what I said -- you wouldn't know it from leafing through the newspapers.  There was a sea change when Reagan and his clowns took over the executive branch in 1981, and it was cruel, authoritarian, mendacious, and materialistic.  It was bad for the whole wide world.
::)

The Jacksons
Off The Wall
Saturday Night Fever

The Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time (also called An Allegory of Venus and Cupid and A Triumph of Venus) by the Florentine artist Agnolo Bronzino.

The View Master
Lite Brite
Show And Tell Picturesound Program

Earth tone colored designs
ABC the top TV network
The hip music found on FM radio while the sedate, mundane found on AM
Hollywood's renaissance
Bad Disney movies
Poor Scooby-Doo parody cartoons
Scanimation graphics
Super 8 home movies
CB Radios
Urban blight
Suburban sprawl
Rise of Japan to a first world economy
Error-correcting electric typewriters
Rotary Telephones with push button telephones "cutting edge"
Calculators that have orange/red digits on a black background as slide rules fade out
Outlaw country music

Paradise Garage
CBGB
Funkytown

I think of the resurgence of skateboarding  :)

As a little tyke in the mid 60’s, we owned a wooden skateboard with clay wheels.  My brother and I regarded it, as we played outside with the neighborhood kids, something nice to have - but we never really mastered it or used it at length.  It languished unplayed with for several  years, and at some point we got rid of it.  As far as I was concerned, well, that was over.

Throughout the early 70’s we never saw or heard any references to a skateboard.  Then in 1976, we were given one of the new translucent plastic skateboards with the new urethane wheels.  It looked cool.  At the encouragement of a friend, I learned how to ride it - it was fun!  Living in a Michigan farm house, I skateboarded on the road in front of our house – if a car came by (a few times an hour) I’d grab the skateboard up and stand by the ditch until they passed by.  Nice!

Somehow that skateboard got damaged.  But I recall going to the Venture store and finding a couple of skateboards on clearance, a red one and identical blue one – I snatched them up.  Much like these:
http://henryinhudson.com/images/retail003.jpg

So in the summer of 1977, between my HS graduation and college (after not finding a job), I spent those long hot summer days (in the city) taking my skateboard to the nearby city park and skateboarding there all day.  Alas, it turned out to be one fun summer, me and my skateboard and the nearby city park.  8)

I think of the resurgence of skateboarding  :)

As a little tyke in the mid 60’s, we owned a wooden skateboard with clay wheels.  My brother and I regarded it, as we played outside with the neighborhood kids, something nice to have - but we never really mastered it or used it at length.  It languished unplayed with for several  years, and at some point we got rid of it.  As far as I was concerned, well, that was over.

Throughout the early 70’s we never saw or heard any references to a skateboard.  Then in 1976, we were given one of the new translucent plastic skateboards with the new urethane wheels.  It looked cool.  At the encouragement of a friend, I learned how to ride it - it was fun!  Living in a Michigan farm house, I skateboarded on the road in front of our house – if a car came by (a few times an hour) I’d grab the skateboard up and stand by the ditch until they passed by.  Nice!

Somehow that skateboard got damaged.  But I recall going to the Venture store and finding a couple of skateboards on clearance, a red one and identical blue one – I snatched them up.  Much like these:
http://henryinhudson.com/images/retail003.jpg

So in the summer of 1977, between my HS graduation and college (after not finding a job), I spent those long hot summer days (in the city) taking my skateboard to the nearby city park and skateboarding there all day.  Alas, it turned out to be one fun summer, me and my skateboard and the nearby city park.  8)




I had a black skateboard just like the blue one. It lasted awhile but I graduated to a wider wooden one.
It was better for tricks and if I look in the garage I think I still have it.

How about roller skates? My first pair of non slip over shoe roller skates were boot skates with metal wheels,
Like every other kid on the block. We used to play roller hockey on the side road. Just imagine the cacophony
of 10 kids on a street with metal wheels grinding on the pavement.

Soul Train
afro hairdos
platform shoes
The Robot

Soul Train
...


:D

Another 70's thing I think of - note the title to this disco/jazz tune...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y98qa8U2lew

I never owned one myself but numerous friends and relatives did - they were popular then  8)

(One aside: Cissy Houston (Whitney's mother) is on vocals...)

Solid Gold


That was mostly an '80s show.

That said:

Buzzsaw-edged postcards
Eisenhower Dollars
The Bahaus, Helevetica, and Avant Garde fonts used on a earth-toned piece of paper
"Sorry, no gas!"
Boxy gasoline pumps with analog readouts
Scanimation graphics
Bad subcompact cars
Outlaw country music
Outsourcing to Japan
Sigma Sound Studios
Moog synthesizer
Long, straight hair on caucasian girls and Afros
Pong and its console clones
Disaster and Blaxpolitation films
Second-wave feminism
Calculators with red/orange displays on a black background with expensive prices
Selectric typewriters
Good Daytime TV
The Bronze Age of Comics
Bad cartoons, especially the Scooby-Doo ripoffs

Vietnam
Elvis Presley
disco
funk

Vietnam
Elvis Presley
disco
funk
For me Elvis Presley covers several decades, not just the 70s.

For me Elvis Presley covers several decades, not just the 70s.


I was thinking of the bloated Elvis.

Kool & The Gang
Sly & The Family Stone
Funkadelic
Rufus

http://www.78ta.com/images/hurst1.jpg

As a teen, my dad would sometimes take all of us to a Chicago Cubs game in the summer.  We loved it!  It wasn't unusual then for fans to go out to the back where players were exiting Wrigley Field and wait, hoping for autographs.  Though players didn't always oblige.  I recall being fond of several players including Manny Trillo.  Well, as we were waiting for the players to exit, passing right by us was Manny Trillo driving out of the park - in his gorgeous new black Trans Am!  Wow  :o  Unfortunately we didn't get his autograph, but I'll never forget that image.  8)

Sanford And Son
The Odd Couple
Atari
sideburns

As a teen, my dad would sometimes take all of us to a Chicago Cubs game in the summer.  We loved it!  It wasn't unusual then for fans to go out to the back where players were exiting Wrigley Field and wait, hoping for autographs.  Though players didn't always oblige.  I recall being fond of several players including Manny Trillo.  Well, as we were waiting for the players to exit, passing right by us was Manny Trillo driving out of the park - in his gorgeous new black Trans Am!  Wow  :o  Unfortunately we didn't get his autograph, but I'll never forget that image.  8)


Manny Trillo was also a Phillies fan favorite, an integral part of the Phillies winning the World Series in 1980. I was at the
game when his errorless innings streak came to an end. When he came to the plate there was a five minute standing ovation
for him.

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/16/ac/17/16ac174ee0a9d821004fcb3353b223f2.jpg

View Master

http://growltigger.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/etch-a-sketch.jpg

Etch-A Sketch
http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/kisselpaso.com/files/2012/04/70stoys.jpg

http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?&id=HN.608048132433314027&w=300&h=300&c=0&pid=1.9&rs=0&p=0 Lava Lamp I have one now, http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=HN.608010615890445536&w=98&h=108&c=8&pid=3.1&qlt=90&rm=2 charlie angels dolls,http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=HN.608044163888712701&w=80&h=80&c=8&pid=3.1&qlt=90&rm=2 I had this when I was in the 6th grade

http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?&id=HN.608018205103754597&w=300&h=300&c=0&pid=1.9&rs=0&p=0 We had these and my mother bought us the kiddie kit.

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/ChutesAwayBox.jpg

http://www.zarksnipers.com/~einstein/OrigMF.jpg

http://assets.thecreatorsproject.com/blog_article_images/images/000/018/283/atari_detail_em.jpg?1314807208

Obviously I wasn't born yet, but what comes to mind is the awful color combinations of swamp green and orange and tacky home interiors.  :P Bands like Genesis when they were progressive also come to mind.  ;) Plus movies like The Excorcist and The Hills Have Eyes.

http://christmasandthensome.com/uploaded_images/Blip-762763.jpg

Anybody remember "Blip"?

http://www.zarksnipers.com/~einstein/OrigMF.jpg


I still have this, it still works and yes I still play the thing.  ;D

http://www.yourvintagelifeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/activity-centre.jpg

I used to drive my mother up the wall with this one but it managed to keep me busy when I was really little.  :)

I still have this, it still works and yes I still play the thing.  ;D


Is it good condition?

http://www.yourvintagelifeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/activity-centre.jpg

I used to drive my mother up the wall with this one but it managed to keep me busy when I was really little.  :)


I used to have too. :)

http://www.yourvintagelifeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/activity-centre.jpg

I used to drive my mother up the wall with this one but it managed to keep me busy when I was really little.  :)
My son had one of these when he was a baby, but he was growing in the 1980's.

http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/images/slides/156/352/4/S1563524/slug/l/fisher-price-tv-2.jpg

My son had one of these when he was a baby, but he was growing in the 1980's.


Did they stop making them after the 1980's? ???

Did they stop making them after the 1980's? ???
The Activity Centre does not appear to be on the Fisher Price selling page on their website.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s0eqqkJW2ac/TscQGZbI4SI/AAAAAAAAEk0/qtE3zRRyQR8/s320/images.jpg

http://www.thesharkguys.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/squares-300x290.jpg

Stan Smith
Jimmy Connors
Arthur Ashe
Björn Borg

plaid pants
platform shoes
Hawaiian Shirts

The hot summer of 1976

http://www.thesharkguys.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/squares-300x290.jpg


Yes!  Hollywood Squares!  :D


The Graduate


I love The Graduate, but it was a 1967 movie  ???

Queen
Kiss
ABBA

My Big Wheel. God, I miss my Big Wheel. Sometimes I wish someone would invent an adult-sized version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzX9iRKrVvU





But wait...they did!  :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSox50NGUEg

I'd totally buy one of these, but unfortunately they want $650 for it.  :-\\

Flashy clothes, Saturday Night Fever, Saturday Night Live, "Fantastic Voyage" by Lakeside

My Big Wheel. God, I miss my Big Wheel. Sometimes I wish someone would invent an adult-sized version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzX9iRKrVvU





But wait...they did!  :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSox50NGUEg

I'd totally buy one of these, but unfortunately they want $650 for it.  :-\\


Wow, $650 dollars for that? Then it must be good. :o

WKRP In Cincinnati
Magic Garden
Villa Alegre
Sesame Street

1965-1980 seems like one big decade to me, what comes after around 1981 seems like a conservative backlash against the counter-culture.


Do new wave and post-punk seem conservative to you?

Anyway, I agree that much of 60's culture seems to have hung around for the first part of the 70's, though it seems to me that the later disco part of the 70's changed that a bit.

Do new wave and post-punk seem conservative to you?

Anyway, I agree that much of 60's culture seems to have hung around for the first part of the 70's, though it seems to me that the later disco part of the 70's changed that a bit.


The conservative reaction was more sociopolitical, more about private interest and deregulation economically.

Even the "disco" part of the '70s seems like a '60s hangover to me, I think disco represents a lot of the counter cultural ideals of sexual liberation. Many people in 1978 were still sporting bell bottoms, afros, and funky psychedelic patterns on their clothes.

I split the 70s into 2 eras. The 70s vibe starts in 1969 to me but the difference is in the first half it's mixed with 60s, in the second half it's mixed with things that are pre 80s.

1970-1974 were the 60s 2.0. Hippies were still around, lots of protests, the Vietnam War was going on. The difference between this period and the 60s itself was that people were beginning to be disillusioned.

75-80 was the higher gas prices, recession, roller rink, disco era. People were tired of the counterculture by then and wanted to dance away what they just saw. It was during this time punk and new wave was started and there was a 60s backlash.

Schooldays and my first two jobs.

Many people in 1978 were still sporting bell bottoms, afros, and funky psychedelic patterns on their clothes.

Then after that, the phase disappeared.

Nixon Impeachment
Vietnam War
Death of Elvis Presley

The "Vinnie Barbarino" look many young Italian guys sported around '75-'76
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Kt9w6_zFoNY/UZ-sY9xvn9I/AAAAAAAAB6w/0a_7TNIIhIw/s1600/vinnie_barbarino.jpg

Chic
Sister Sledge
Bee Gees