Foo - The '70s

What do you remember about the '70s? I don't remember much because I was born in 1971, and I was busy being a kid. I don't remember the Vietnam War ending or the Nixon scandal. I don't think we had a TV set at the time. If we did, I don't remember watching it.

I remember President Carter asking us to conserve energy. Why? I wasn't sure, but it sounded like a good idea.

I remember thinking that cars were really, really big.

I remember thinking that it would be pretty cool to watch skyrockets in flight in the afternoon, but I wasn't sure how you could see fireworks in the afternoon with the sun.

I was fond of my Big Wheel. No that's not a euphamism.

I remember the SuperFriends, Scooby Doo, School House Rock, and various other Saturday Morning and after-school cartoons.

The first movie I ever went to see was "Pete's Dragon". Followed soon after by "The Cat from Outer Space" and "Star Wars".

I was thinking last night that it all seems a long time ago. So what do you remember?

I was born in '85, but I friggn loved Pete's Dragon.

I was thinking last night that it all seems a long time ago. So what do you remember?

Only what I saw on Dazed and Confused. I base my entire knowledge of the 70's off that movie.

High school.

My first car - '74 Pinto (shut up :p )

Disco

Moving to the Azores, visiting Europe, moving home

Half of college.

Hunting and shooting with my friends Mike and Danny.

Big camping trip in the rain.

Snowmobiling.

Thanksgiving at Fish Lake a couple years.

Going to Greco-Donair in Grand Falls New Brunswick.

Body surfing in February

4 feet of snow in February

Hitting a snowback...thought I killed everyone (we were all fine, just buried the car).

Wrist rockets

Fishing

First love

Only what I saw on Dazed and Confused. I base my entire knowledge of the 70's off that movie.

My commupance was the 70's !! I loved it ! It was a strange time. Very, very different than now but I really think much better. The music, cars, Vans and bicycles especially....peoples attitudes...we were a much better nation.
In the area I grew up, a suburb right outside of Philly, PA my Friday or Saturday nite fun and hilarity was exactly as shown in Dazed and Confused. I was blown away when I saw it because it was like someone had a video on me and my dopey friends. D & C is the single best representation of the 70's I have ever seen.

Having hippies in the park braid flowers into my hair.

The gas crisis.

Wonderama, the Big Blue Marble, the Magic Garden and Sesame Street.

SNL, Saturday Night Fever, Star Wars and Rappers Delight.

And last night's episode of Family Guy featured the theme song from "The Electric Company". I found myself singing along.

Those were the days. About all I did was go to school, run, play chess, ride my bike, and in the summer, play golf at the county courses for 50 cents per round just about every weekday in the summer.

I remember the ill fated year when I got my arm twisted to try swimming. Nixon had us on year-round daylight savings time. Every day, I would walk to school in the dark, and then walk home in the dark after practice. I don't think I saw the light of day one single time on a weekday that whole winter.

I also remember wage and price control, Watergate, Gerald Ford stumbling and bumping his head with regularity, the best years of Saturday Night Live, lots of music (who would actually buy a Jackson Brown album anyway?), the first Earth Day, and doing lots of dumb things without ever getting caught, injured, or in trouble. Cars polluted a lot, Ford started their long steady decline, Honda, Datsun, Toyota and Mazda were all new. Volkswagon Beetles were everywhere. The '72 Olympics marked the end of a brief window of optimism that the world could be a safe place. WalMarts weren't everywhere, and people actually shopped at Sears and J.C. Penny. The Baltimore Orioles were a perenial contender, and I paid attention to baseball. NBA Basketball wasn't all about big thugs leaning on other players down low.

I remember too much. Better stop for air.

The jump suit my Grandmother made me. It was dark blue with red bicycles all over it.
The orange shirt with my name in black iron on letters.
My Schwinn Scrambler. Canti frame, banana seat, but with knobby tires.
To add to the OP's cartoon list... The Groovie Ghoulies.
My Saturday morning ritual was cartoons, followed by Kung Fu, then it was Horror movies (loved the Godzilla movies), then it was the three Stooges.
Riding my bike all day and never getting sore.

I was born in 1990. I didnt even get to see the lat 80's.=p

The 4 months I lived in the 70s must have been pretty dull....I don't remember a fracking thing.

followed by Kung Fu, then it was Horror movies (loved the Godzilla movies),

THE GREATEST foriegn films of all time !!!
Japanese monsters and Shaw Brothers Kung-Fu !!!
:roflmao:
Speiberg, et al have nothing on the guys who could make King Ghidora fly
and be barely able to see the fishing line !!
:roflmao:

The 70's were fun,

I lived in Arizona and Colorado

Joined my first racing team

bought one of the first mountain bikes in town (Colorado Springs)

The music.
Riding, training, racing.
Vacations in a camper roaming Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado.
Trying to make my car faster than all the other guys in school.
My first job. At a swanky resturant with a great bar........where I discovered alcohol........at 15.
Meeting my 1st wife and getting married. How could I have known?

I was born in '79. I don't remember a friggin' thing. My mom said I was the baby from hell though.

I got stoned and I missed it. :o

I first went skiing when I was 5 back in 1979. That was the greatest thing to happen in the 70's.

The music.

I was born in 75, but feel the 70's would have suited me well. Being a banger at heart

Everything USAZorro remembers here before he stopped for air and:

big, bold geometric patterns in clothing and interior decorating;

garish colors--probably a counter-reaction to too much "tasteful" beige--bright oranges, lime green, electric blue. When you combine that with the big, bold geometrics, well, it does make quite an impression;

stewardesses (that's what flight attendants used to be called and they were always women) in hotpants;

seemingly endless debate over the shape of the goddam table for negotiations to end our last big, stupid war;

it was the decade of gay liberation, that began when patrons of the Stonewall bar resisted another routine raid by the NYPD in 1969; it's sometimes called a "riot" but it was actually a rebellion against injustice;

Patty Hearst;

the bank robbery and hostage-taking in Stockholm, from which the Stockholm Syndrome derives its name.

it's sometimes called a "riot" but it was actually a rebellion against injustice;
thank you :)

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I remember going to the gas station with my mom and then finding out that because of her plate numbers she'd have to come back another day.

http://www.georgecoghill.com/illo/images/illustration/_commercial/speed-freak-cuda.jpg Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and the Rat Fink was Sixties man.

1. 5mph bumpers
2. Jimmy Carter and his stupid sweater.
3. pubic hair
4. streaking
5. Hank Aaron legitimately breaking a home run record.
6. getting my driver's license.
7. Winning second in the state wrestling tournament.
8. non-stop sex Spring quarter 1975 at UGA
9. no sex Summer quarter 1975 at UGA
10. getting married for the first time.

I could go on, but there will be other threads...

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and the Rat Fink was Sixties man.

Yeah, but I remember it in the '70s. :D

I was born in '85, but I friggn loved Pete's Dragon.

KP, I'm your father...

What do you remember about the '70s? I don't remember much because I was born in 1971, and I was busy being a kid. I don't remember the Vietnam War ending or the Nixon scandal. I don't think we had a TV set at the time. If we did, I don't remember watching it.

I remember President Carter asking us to conserve energy. Why? I wasn't sure, but it sounded like a good idea.

I remember thinking that cars were really, really big.

I remember thinking that it would be pretty cool to watch skyrockets in flight in the afternoon, but I wasn't sure how you could see fireworks in the afternoon with the sun.

I was fond of my Big Wheel. No that's not a euphamism.

I remember the SuperFriends, Scooby Doo, School House Rock, and various other Saturday Morning and after-school cartoons.

The first movie I ever went to see was "Pete's Dragon". Followed soon after by "The Cat from Outer Space" and "Star Wars".

I was thinking last night that it all seems a long time ago. So what do you remember?

lot's of things, even if i was born in the late 60s.

i.e. nixon getting into marine one after resigning, the day elvis died, the US hostage crisis in iran, the bicentennial...

'THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION'..........Back then there were few STD's, and it was pretty much
no-fault sex. I remember asking a girl if she believed in pre date sex and she said 'sure'. Those were the days......at least what I can remember.

Seeing Billy Joel and Frank Zappa one week apart at the same smoky venue.
The Who when they were all alive.
Finding out, too late, that a paisley shirt and checked pants with 2" cuffs don't go together.
Being grateful that I didn't take any of those pills that Kenny Kosloski offered me in 8th grade.
Braces.
Sticking pats of butter to the ceiling in the cafeteria in high school.
Acne.
My '59 Ford pickup.
Mary Murdock (hubba hubba).

1. 5mph bumpers
2. Jimmy Carter and his stupid sweater.
3. pubic hair
4. streaking
5. Hank Aaron legitimately breaking a home run record.
6. getting my driver's license.
7. Winning second in the state wrestling tournament.
8. non-stop sex Spring quarter 1975 at UGA
9. no sex Summer quarter 1975 at UGA
10. getting married for the first time.

I could go on, but there will be other threads...

SuperFly
I remember Exactly where I was standing while watching Nixon Resign
First Grateful Dead Show
Wating in line to buy $2.00 worth of gas for my Chevy Vega
Colombain Gold
Belt Buckle Pipes (See above)
Fabulious Furry Freak Brothers
Pimped out Caddys,to go along with wide lapel polyester Leasiure Suits and wide brimmed hats(See Superfly)
Sanford and Son
Archie and Edith
Shaft!
Airport
Disco Balls
Kent State
Aerosmith's "Big Ten Inch"
Open Classroom Schooling
Billy Beer
Cheap Muscle Cars
Leaded or Unleaded
Right On!!
Walter Mondale
Vice Prez Nelson Rockefeller
I could go on forever,but you get the idea!

My mother watched the Watergate hearings on television when she was in labor with me. She's not sure why I turned out the way I did, but she believes this had something to do with it.

What do I remember of the '70's?

Lynyrd Skynyrd show that I had tickets to at the Indiana State Fairgrounds cancelled due to the plane crash
First car: 1969 Cougar
Vietnam War ending
Arab Oil Embargo tripling gas prices to 73.9 cents a gallon
Nixon resigning in disgrace
Gerald Ford assaulting people with golf balls
Gerald Ford falling down the stairway on Air Force 1
Jimmy Carter
Iran Hostages
Playing in a punk band called the Anarchs
Meeting my wife and marrying her
many other events

graduating HS in 71
purple Owsley and Orange double domes
Jimmy Buffet at the Blue Door in Miami
Seeing the Who at the Spectrum in Philly.
Going to a concert every weekend (see above).
Patti Ann Stratton
'ludes
Whippin Post blarin from almost every
dorm room at U. Miami
protests
The draft lottery and watching to
see where my number would come up (312 my year, 2 the year before)
getting engaged, getting married (different person, big mistake).
the Hostage crisis
Jonestown
Seeing "the movement" die on the campus of U. Miami in 1971
when Abbey Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and Tom Hayden walked across
campus and about 1/2 the people I was with said "who?"
other than that I don't recall all that much (see number 2 above).

marty

Jimmy Buffet at the Blue Door in Miami


Lucky son of a, son of a...

USAZorro, BroMax's stuff, and:
Watkins Glen NY outdoor concert - watching some crazy guy in a parachute wander over the crowd with smoke bombs tracking his descent (later turned out one of his smoke bombs blew up & he was dead. THAT was weird)
All the usualy HS stuff - everybody beginning to smoke pot after I quit
College, anti-war protests in DC
The art explosion in SoHo NY, blackouts, NY Yankees, Bob&Ken's Broome St Bar before it was yuppified.
When a loft was a loft and not a million dollar abode.
Watching the World Trade Center being built.
The death of politican innocence, courtesy of Tricky Dick
PingPong diplomacy
The initial clean air act and the demise of the dayglo sunsets over the NJ chemical fields.
Taking a course called "the politics of ecology"
Not having any required courses in college & thanking the late 60's crowd for it!
Transit strikes, garbage strikes in NYC
Free nightly rock concerts at Wolman Rink in Central Park (well, you had to sit on the rocks instead of paying $2 for a chair, anyway)
Way more, but that's enough, fur-shure.

USAZorro, BroMax's stuff, and:
Watkins Glen NY outdoor concert - watching some crazy guy in a parachute wander over the crowd with smoke bombs tracking his descent (later turned out one of his smoke bombs blew up & he was dead. THAT was weird)
All the usualy HS stuff - everybody beginning to smoke pot after I quit
College, anti-war protests in DC
The art explosion in SoHo NY, blackouts, NY Yankees, Bob&Ken's Broome St Bar before it was yuppified.
When a loft was a loft and not a million dollar abode.
Watching the World Trade Center being built.
The death of politican innocence, courtesy of Tricky Dick
PingPong diplomacy
The initial clean air act and the demise of the dayglo sunsets over the NJ chemical fields.
Taking a course called "the politics of ecology"
Not having any required courses in college & thanking the late 60's crowd for it!
Transit strikes, garbage strikes in NYC
Free nightly rock concerts at Wolman Rink in Central Park (well, you had to sit on the rocks instead of paying $2 for a chair, anyway)
Way more, but that's enough, fur-shure.
How could I have forgotten...

Shag carpeting, wood paneling, and avocado (the color). I think AMC even made a Pacer in avocado. AC/DC wastoids screaming "Disco Sucks".

1. 5mph bumpers
2. Jimmy Carter and his stupid sweater.
3. pubic hair
4. streaking
5. Hank Aaron legitimately breaking a home run record.
6. getting my driver's license.
7. Winning second in the state wrestling tournament.
8. non-stop sex Spring quarter 1975 at UGA
9. no sex Summer quarter 1975 at UGA
10. getting married for the first time.

I could go on, but there will be other threads...

That brings back good and bad memories!

I went through high school and some college in the 70´s. Great time to be young.

Here´s something for you youngsters. We had no computers back then and spent most of our time outside! Like most guys my age, I drove a hot car (GTO) like a freeking maniac. Lucky to survive.

I forgot, when models meant this to me
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e289/SpydaMike13/Bear.jpg

^^^ Ha Ha
I built a lot of those type....
Remember Deals Wheels ??

I drove a hot car (GTO) like a freeking maniac. Lucky to survive.


Yeah yeah yeah !!!
Mine was a flat black '67 with rompin' stompin 400 w/ hurst 4sp !!

That brings back good and bad memories!

I went through high school and some college in the 70´s. Great time to be young.

Here´s something for you youngsters. We had no computers back then and spent most of our time outside! Like most guys my age, I drove a hot car (GTO) like a freeking maniac. Lucky to survive.

I had computers (90s) and still drove like a maniac....except mine was a Mustang and Mayhew Rd. was the dragstrip....exactly 1/2mi long, and had a extremely dangerous double blind S curve in the middle. Lots of people ended up skidding into the creek. Nothing major, the creek was too shallow to really drown in (5" woo!), but was annoying enough to have to get towed out of.

Then you had the unlucky guys who skid out and hit a tree.....it's amazing nobody got hospitalized from taht stuff or worse.

^^^ Ha Ha
I built a lot of those type....
Remember Deals Wheels ??

The rig is just one of four reproductions I have at my desk. Not pictures, Camaro, willie and 57 bellair gassers. The rig I remember from back in the day then was red, instead of that yellow. When my first supervisor saw them, he said "flashback".

DEALS WHEELS....sigh... I miss my bug and bus.

Fabulious Furry Freak Brothers
I'm trying to remember where I know this from. Village Voice maybe?

I'm trying to remember where I know this from. Village Voice maybe?

How could we have gotten this far into a thread on the 70's and fail to mention
THE single most important figure of that decade ??!?!? :cry:

http://www.purplemoon.com/Stickers/crumb-natural.jpg

The Freak Bros were part of the great SF head shop/ Komic era

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Mad Magazine cover, 1974

The '70's? Wild ride, man. From Nixon getting reelected by absolutely crushing McGovern to Nixon resigning in disgrace less than two years later.

The first "energy crisis" with gas lines, "odd-even" rationing (based on the last digit of your license plate) - I listened to an uncle complain bitterly about the price of premium for his tuna boat being at an astronomical 43 cents per gallon. In terms of a national energy policy, we haven't learned a damn thing since then.

The other thing the energy crisis did? It gave the American auto makers a serious wake up call that they pretty much all failed to heed. In 1970, American cars were it. Period. The VW bug had become pretty mainstream, but it was about the only foreign car that had. By 1980, American cars were in a state of perpetual catch-up to foreign cars, in fact and in perception, and they still haven't caught back up.

Musically, the decade started with the Beatles breaking up :cry: and ended as a disco inferno :mad: , but there was some awesome music created in between (Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, for example).

Long hair ruled, at least by comparison to even a couple years before. Even my Dad let his flattop grow out. It was still a flattop, but he managed to get it to grow about 2 inches straight up without goo or grease. A "normal" haircut on a Fortune-500 company CEO in 1974 would not have looked out of place among the demonstrators at the 1968 Chicago Dem National Convention.

The Vietnam War finally ended. We didn't learn a damn thing from that either except that it isn't cool to piss on the returning vets even if you didn't like the war they were sent to fight.

Three-Mile Island happened, and it killed the future of the domestic nuclear power industry.

Lots fewer TV stations. Much better shows.

I started the decade as a clueless hormone-crazed nut job 7th grader and ended it as clueless hormone-stabilized nut job college student. In between, circa 1973, is when I was introduced to cycling in a serious way. The first bike mag I ever owned was a "Bike World" that featured a wrap-up of the 1973 Tour de France (won by Luis Ocana - Merckx didn't enter that year) and a rant called "The Toy Bike Syndrome" by a guy named John Forester, who any visitor to A&S knows is still active and still controversial.

MAD magazine! I got this month's edition....they are making fun of Dane Cook.

MAD magazine! I got this month's edition....they are making fun of Dane Cook.
I actually have every Mad Magazine from Jan 1965 to date! I've had a subscription since then and I've bagged then and keep them in a big cedar chest to regulate humidity!:D

I'm trying to remember where I know this from. Village Voice maybe?
Ah, the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. Great stuff. Remember their motto? "Dope will get you trough times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope." And, of course, how could we have neglected to mention Mr. Natural and his sidekick, Flaky Foont? Or Zap Comix, featuring the work of the disturbed R. Crumb and the really disturbed, overtly misogynistic S. Clay Wilson?

Who could forget either the advent of "Wicked Wanda" or "Chester the Molester" either?;)

Awesome! I used to have some from when my dad was a kid, but sadly my Aunt stole them from my room in my grandma's house, and sold them all for $20....I was mildly pissed off.

Spy Vs. Spy was worth having those all alone....My dream mountain bike would be an IronHorse Yakuza Ojiki (I'll pick the hardware on it dangit...Hanebrink G-9 fork is a MUST) with a Spy Vs. Spy paint job.