Remembering the 70's...

[hippietoad]

Heck yeah, I remember...Hit those childhood years wearing Toughskin Jeans,
those brown suede rubber soled lace up shoes (whatever they were called-alzheimers kicking in),watching re-runs of the original Mickey Mouse Club.
Oh goodie, I just realized the re-runs we watched were from the 50's !!!
Remembering my best friend's first car - a brown Pinto!! Such kewl times.
What an era.

[denimstar]

those brown suede rubber soled lace up shoes (whatever they were called-alzheimers kicking in),
chukka boots? They had a gummy sole.

[Flight From Ashiya]

Sew-On Patches of :) "Have A Nice Day" & "Keep On Trucking".

Bell-bottom denim.Big lapel cowboy shirts.The Fonz,Charlies Angels,C.B.Radio,Streaking,The Dukes Of Hazzard,Donny & Marie,Farrah Fawcett-Majors,Starsky & Hutch,Synthesizers,Trade Union Strikes,Power Cuts,Milk Bottles,Green Shield Stamps,Disco-Music,Space Dust,Electronic Ping-Pong Games,'Oz' Magazine,Super 8mm Movies.

............memories of the 1970s........no stopping 'em!.:rolleyes:

[hippietoad]

chukka boots? They had a gummy sole.
That be them :)

[hippietoad]

Sew-On Patches of :) "Have A Nice Day" & "Keep On Trucking".

Bell-bottom denim.Big lapel cowboy shirts.The Fonz,Charlies Angels,C.B.Radio,Streaking,The Dukes Of Hazzard,Donny & Marie,Farrah Fawcett-Majors,Starsky & Hutch,Synthesizers,Trade Union Strikes,Power Cuts,Milk Bottles,Green Shield Stamps,Disco-Music,Space Dust,Electronic Ping-Pong Games,'Oz' Magazine,Super 8mm Movies.

............memories of the 1970s........no stopping 'em!.:rolleyes:
Oh man...I actually had a Happy Days album with the Fonz on the cover.
Loved to eat Space Dust and Dad still has the 8 mm movies we watched
as kids. Remember Disco Duck ? Those days were just to much fun.

[wandering_okie]

Ah..the 70's.....Let's see..


Us poor kids could afford to drive 60's muscle cars..
(My best friend drove an Opel Kadet..though)
A lot of towns still had Blue Laws....when it wasn't grain harvest time (during summer) you'd see just about everyone in town at the city park on saturday afternoon just chillin.. cuz the stores were all closed.
Still could get "fresh milk" delivered to your house (you could in my hometown)
There were still wide open spaces ..in town.
Oh, corduroy overalls with bell bottoms, sky high shoes, floppy caps.

[themnax]

childhood? i WAS 21 in 69! (born in 1948)

70s was when you could hitch and people would actualy stop and give you a ride. one place i was living in oregon in the late 70s i used to hitch to work every morning. never late once!

my first car? a 1959 chevy pannel truck. always wanted one and wouldn't mind having one now, if i had to have some kind of a vehicule at all, which i don't.

it wasn't a long enough bed for a real bed to streatch out in though. 235 ohc inline 6, favorit internal combustion engine i ever had to deal with. never much love for pavement or cities even then. not where personal vehicules belong. out in the boonies is. people too far apart for public transit is the only excuse anyone should ever have to need them.

mickey mouse. i watched em IN the 50s. little funniccillo annette when she was 11 or 12. she was well in her 20s when they were showing the reruns in the 60s and 70s.

blah. mickey mouse was right wing brainwashing then. probably why so many idiots grew up to vote for nuts like nixxon, raygun and bush.

good things about the 50s was people could a did build all sorts of wierd looking houses and buildings (and not just us shaggy folks out in the boonies either). there was some kind of franchise that were all kind of spherical and painted orange so they looked like an orange. that and railroads running passinger trains, citys having trolleys, and greyhound running locals and every hour or so.

that reminds me; anyone know/remember what those were about. back in the 50s. i think they were mostly abondond in the early 60s, arround 63 or so. but they used be along almost every highy turnout and the were some kind of franchise, like a hamburger joint or something. those orange things that looked like an orange. my folks never had a car when they were in bussiness so i never did find out.

i don't think they were orange julius, though they could have been. they might have been a&w rootbeer too. they had a hamburger joint franchise for a while but that was later in the 70s. but these spherical orange hot dog stand sized looking places used to be all over the place. at least here in california.

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[hippietoad]

Yup childhood....And what a great one it was.
They are cherished memories no matter how some may twist them.

[wandering_okie]

childhood? i WAS 21 in 69! (born in 1948)

70s was when you could hitch and people would actualy stop and give you a ride. one place i was living in oregon in the late 70s i used to hitch to work every morning. never late once!

my first car? a 1959 chevy pannel truck. always wanted one and wouldn't mind having one now, if i had to have some kind of a vehicule at all, which i don't.

.. Yeah, I was 10 in 69', so I really was a child of the 70's. First car was a 71' El Camino. (but my favorite was my 68' Plymouth Satellite 2dr hd top-it ran like a scalded dog)

And oh yeah, late 70's we hitched all over the place. (used the old gas can trick)

Have a friend in Oklahoma..his first car was an old chevy panel. He's still got it, and he loves that thing more than oxygen.

[hippietoad]

Hey Okie,
There's a guy who lives around here that has an old El Camino. He's
put a 4x4 kit on it and big tires..Toooooooo kewl :)

[Polyester]

My Uncle and aunts Pontiac Stratochief 4 door automobile in deep dark blue.

Clotheslines, clotheslines everywhere! Everyone had one and used one, and you never had to look very far to find one with a long row of cloth diapers and rubber pants hanging up on it.

"Baby Scott" (T-tab) Disposable diapers. If anyone faintly remembers, Baby Scott disposable diapers were the diapers that incorporated the use of cute little snap-on gingham coloured rubber pants. It was a two piece disposable diaper system that much resembled regular ordinary cloth diapers with rubber pants over top.

Those silly old commercial hair dryers in beauty salons, that had the big puffy plastic type bag that went over the women's heads after they got their perms. I remember women lined up all in a row under those things, smoking cigarettes, chit-chatting, and reading magazines.

My mother running around the house with her hair all done up in household curlers, with a pair of baby rubber pants pulled on over top of her head. Curlers poking out through the leg holes. "In those days you did what worked, and used what you had".

[themnax]

what i remember most about the 60s and 70s, what made them the sort of mini-golden age that they were, was that people weren't all about expecting what was past to be better then what they could make of what was to come.

i remember hope.

i remember dreaming about a future that we can still make happen.

that's what people who hated us long haired hippies were actualy afraid of.

of having to do their own thinking which reality makes everyone have to do a little of anyway.

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[shaggie]

Anyone remember Soft n' Fade? That was a detergent for softening up and fading blue jeans.

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[themnax]

i wasn't into blue denum, stiff scratchy and uncomfortable when new, tended to wear out too damd quickly once they faided, on top of being i thought a bit hypicritical of a kind of anti-uniform uniform if you know what i mean.

i'm still damd curious about those big oranges though. spherical orange things with a customer window in one side and a door in the back, just big enough for a hot dog stand, about maybe 16 feet in diameter. sometimes with and additional awning, usualy not, but always spherical and always painted pumpking orange orange.

it always bugged me never knowing what they were and still bugs me still not.

they were along the old highway. and when they built the freeway they were on the access roads by some of the exits. never had a car nor my parents either when they were still in whatever bussiness they were in. i'd see them riding by on the greyhound or in someone else's car. that's whay i never got to see one up close when they existed. but i'd see cars, people parked in front of them, going up to that counter when it was opened and buying something. produce? orange juce? hamburger? i really don't know and really, you know it's one of those ungratified things from my childhood, like never getting to ride on the key system when it was running because my dad's pass was good on the ferry boats (accross san francisco bay from the oakland 'mole' to the ferry building at the foot of market street).

(when the railroad stopped running the ferry boats they contracted greyhounds funkeyest crappiest oldest bussess to take us accross the bay bridge. by then the key system had just about stopped running and it would be another ten years before bart came online to replace it)

but dam, somebody who was arround then, in the 50s in northern california, and perhapse elsewhere, ought to remember those damd oranges and hopefully be able to tell me what the effing hell they were.

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[PSYCHEDELICA MAN]

the 70s,fleetwood mac,the eagles,rush,boston,...some great music then

[shaggie]

the 70s,fleetwood mac,the eagles,rush,boston,...some great music then
Yeah, 70s was eclectic. Many types of music back then, country, heavy metal, easy listening, punk, new wave, ballads.

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[themnax]

sure all people who weren't there know is the music, but the big thing to me then, is there was still some hope of the automobile not perminently invaugling itself as america's state religeon.

the establishment had the guns but us crazy kids had the numbers. mellowing out and laying back. being creative. gloriying in immagination rather then destructiveness. creating oddness, uniqueness. as participants, not spectators. building a golden age out of the ashes of past ignorance. THAT was the 70s. what young people and a few older ones, had sacraficed their publicly perceived honor and gone to jail to fight for becoming the new establishment, starting to happen. that was the 70s too. until the kneejerk fanatacism of the 80 came along and screwed us all.

a psychodellic colored decade of hope and creativity.

and not just shaggy and out on the street, but in architectural design and other more socialy accepted places as well. certainly the only decade the genre of science fiction ever received the respect it deserved.

of course i'm talking about in america and a few more other fortunate places.

there were, after all, some pretty horrible things going on elsewhere, often do to american forign policy, as they had been and continue to be, for as long as i have lived in this body on this planet.

but there was a serious majority of opposition to those horrers, serious, open and perhapse not entirely ignored by a far more diverse main stream media.

though it did, coin the term "hippie", and use it mostly in such a way as to attempt to discredit us and our ideals.

but that was mostly back in the 60s, when we were all still kids and struggling for it.
like i said, in the 70s we were becoming the new establishment, or on the verge of doing so, until pseudo-conservatism, which i've never seen in practice as more then a polite euphamism for idiological fanatacism, cut its back room deal between ragun and khomani to screw us all, as we've been being screwed by it ever since.

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[hotwater]

http://www.nhoem.state.nh.us/mitigation/Image71.gif
The Great New England Blizzard of '78'

I think I remember wanting to go outside and play in the snow,
but because there was 4 feet on snow on the ground (with 10 foot
drifts) my mother wouldn't let me go outside and play http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/sad.gif


Hotwater

[themnax]

http://www.nhoem.state.nh.us/mitigation/Image71.gif
The Great New England Blizzard of '78'

I think I remember wanting to go outside and play in the snow,
but because there was 4 feet on snow on the ground (with 10 foot
drifts) my mother wouldn't let me go outside and play http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/sad.gif


Hotwater

they called THAT a blizzard? on donner summit in 1968, june 2nd, with four inches of slush on the ground and melting fast, that night it droped 8 FEET of snow IN 8 HOURS. the drifts, were, as is typical up there, 20 FEET at least.

i remember because this was right before i went into the air force to avoid getting drafted into the army.

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[shaggie]

That one in 78 dumped on the Midwest through New England. It was like a hurricane.

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[shaggie]

I've always found it peculiar that many of the baby boomers, for whatever reason, turned to religious fundamentalism and conservative politics as a perceived solution to their problems. In a way, they short-circuited the ideals that they held in their younger years and have caused the social atmosphere to become increasingly reactionary. I used to think the 80s were bad until I saw what happened post 911.

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[hotwater]

they called THAT a blizzard? on donner summit in 1968, june 2nd, with four inches of slush on the ground and melting fast, that night it droped 8 FEET of snow IN 8 HOURS. the drifts, were, as is typical up there, 20 FEET at least.

i remember because this was right before i went into the air force to avoid getting drafted into the army.

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http://www.oncapepublications.com/books/bliz78/images/dep01.jpg

This thread is about remembering the 70's which for me as a small child was but a fleeting memory (this thread is not about 'can you top this') :mad:

While I'd be a fool to compare our weather to the summit of donner pass, this storm will go down in the annals of modern history for the 54 lives that it took, the over 100 mph winds, and the massive destruction of over 2000 homes along the New England coast (in addition to the impressive snow total of 52 inches in NW Rhode Island)



Hotwater

[shaggie]

There was another blizzard of the century around the middle of march in 1993 that dumped snow in Alabama and many other places east of the Mississippi. Probably a bigger storm in terms of geographic area than the one in 1978.

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[shaggie]

Here's a satellite image from a NOAA satellite of the aftermath of the blizzard of 1993. The milky white is all snow, as far south as Alabama. The feathery clouds on the lower right are due to extremely cold air over the ocean. Ice is seen on the south shore of Lake Erie. A snowy outline of the Appalacian Mountains is seen.

http://home.flash.net/%7Elauras34/sat3143.jpg

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[hotwater]

There was another blizzard of the century around the middle of march in 1993 that dumped snow in Alabama and many other places east of the Mississippi. Probably a bigger storm in terms of geographic area than the one in 1978.
The storm in 1993 was somewhat of a disappointment with only 20 inches of snow locally, especially when we were hearing reports further south in places like Philly and New York of snowfall rates in excess of 4 inches an hour.

We were bracing for another Blizzard of '78' but only got her little cousin :mad:

Hotwater

[themnax]

well 68 was ALMOST the 70s. culturaly, experientialy, the decade could be said to have begun with woodstock and ended with carter getting screwed by the conspiracy between raygun and khomani. although i think of the era most people today, especialy those who weren't at least teen agers then, think of as the 70s could be said to/thought of as having, begun sometime between the nomination and death by gunshot, of jfk. or even slightly earlier, with the end, or at least winding down, of red scare mccarthyism.

disco and platform shoes, incidently, were early 80s, not 70s at all either.

and it wasn't about getting high either, although free rock concerts in the park and on college campuses were certainly a cool and mellow part of it. as were hitching, picking up hitchers, crashing with straingers, letting strangers crash in your pad, and so on, all of that. 'erb, acid and shrooms were part of that scene, or came with it perhapse, but were never intrinsic to it. though dr tim had a certain fan fallowing.

but being mellow and creative and letting each other be mellow and creative, THAT was the whole point, that and opposing war and injustice.

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[shaggie]

I think a demarcation could be drawn at the point where people were too young to be drafted. They were the post-vietnam era, people born in the late 50s or thereabouts.

Early 70s was still turbulent. The rest was more mellow, more so after the vietnam thing was over. I tend to see the 70s as a response to the turmoil of earlier years. It's as if people wanted to take some shelter in an artificial world of things like drugs and disco. There was a 'return to the land' sort of movement going on. Some of what was left of the hippie movement took up an agrarian lifestyle. The rest melded back into mainstream society.

Disco as a drug cult was pretty much over when the feds raided studio 54 around 1980 and after that anti-disco riot at Comiskey Park around 1979. They reopened later but not with the intensity of earlier years. The disco thing was revived with the help of Michael Jackson and others in the early to mid-80s in a re-packaged form, although the recording industry was clever enough to not refer to it as disco. 'Thriller' sounds very similar to a Bee Gees disco record. It sold tens of millions in spite of people claiming they hated disco.

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[shaggie]

The atmosphere today politically is far different. It's almost bizarre that in the 70s there was a proposed amendment to guarantee people's rights and now we have a call for a Constitutional amendment to limit people's rights. It's a sign of the times.

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[Eek]

disco and platform shoes were mid 70's. the early 80's were the pointy bow-toed / pumps and ankle boots. duran duran, human league new wave type stuff

[Piney]

The Inpeachment of President Nixon was huge.


President Ford negotiated the Helsinki acords with Brezhnev from The Soviet Union. we thought that dentent was under way.

The first gas crisis was 1974 a second in 1979 with gas lines, alternate days fill ups. People got interested in Toyota and Honda.

The Shah of Iran was overthrown in 1979 by Aytolah Kohemini and the Iranian Revolution. It brought lots of displaced Iranians to The US.
Saddam Husein then attacked Iran they were at war for 8 years.

There was a civil war in Lebanon in 1975 we received immigrants from Lebanon.

There was the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The Camp David Accords.

Earth Day was born in 1970. Roe vs w Wade was in 1973.

The Bi-Centenial of 1976 was a huge party. Tall ships in NY harbor.

a pack of smokes was $0.50 a candy bar a nickel. a subway ride a quarter.

[themnax]

The Inpeachment of President Nixon was huge.


President Ford negotiated the Helsinki acords with Brezhnev from The Soviet Union. we thought that dentent was under way.

The first gas crisis was 1974 a second in 1979 with gas lines, alternate days fill ups. People got interested in Toyota and Honda.

The Shah of Iran was overthrown in 1979 by Aytolah Kohemini and the Iranian Revolution. It brought lots of displaced Iranians to The US.
Saddam Husein then attacked Iran they were at war for 8 years.

There was a civil war in Lebanon in 1975 we received immigrants from Lebanon.

There was the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The Camp David Accords.

Earth Day was born in 1970. Roe vs w Wade was in 1973.

The Bi-Centenial of 1976 was a huge party. Tall ships in NY harbor.

a pack of smokes was $0.50 a candy bar a nickel. a subway ride a quarter.

nixon wasn't impeached, he resigned, thus avoiding any true test of whether the mechanism for impeachment could actualy work when it was needed to or not. we DID finnaly get our oil greedy and idiologicly fanatical assess out of viet nam though!

the bi-centenial was a load of crap and was the beggining of the screwing up of most of what we had fought for in the 60s and gained in the 70s.

i still thing the khomani thing had the collusion of the raygun administration and his then fledgling cia lackey, donald rumsfield.

candy bars were a dime from the 40s through the 60s and into the 70s
then it started jumping up like crazy every since. the last time they had been 5 cents as their standard price was back in the 20s and 30s when my parents were kids, long before even i was born, and i was born in 1948!

magazenes like analog and model railroader were $.50 untill the price of paper skyrocketed.

the so called gas crysises of the 70s were cooked up by the robber barrons of international oil corporatocracy as an excuse to raise prices.

amtrak came on line to let the railroad companies off the hook from having to run passinger opperations as the i.c.c. had been requiring by law for them to continue up untill then and they had been fight tooth and nail by doing everything they could to discourage ridership. to be fair to them, they were, and still are, also being forced to pay for the right of ways of their competition, which didn't and still doesn't seem entirely equatable.

but there were, as there still are, a LOT of people who didn't want alternative transportation thrown out with the bath water. amtrak was the compromise that came out of all that.

ford was mr pardon me. james brown (who died on practicly the same day) did more for this (u.s.a.) country.

helsinki accords would have been great if raygun hadn't screwed up everything, like bush II, deliberately, which to me is not only malpheasance, but outright treason. especialy undermining all the regulatory agencies we fought for in the 60s and 70s by putting those regulated in charge of them.

bush I stopped the overt proccess of doing so, but did nothing to reverse the devistation to the constitution raygun had wrot, and which bush II boasts of continuing.

clinton wasn't great and did a bunch of dumb ass things (cafta/nafta, which mostly sounded good at the time), but at least he made an appearance of trying to reverse some of the crap. i know this is going beyond the 70s but they were what the 80s were an irrational and irrisponsible knee jerk reaction to on the part of fanatical idiologs pretending to be "conservative" whatever the hell that really means, if it means anything at all other then attacking the constitution and joe sixpacks real freedoms and rights.

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[shaggie]

Mopeds were the rage in the U.S. in the late 70s, although they were popular in Europe for decades before that. In many states you didn't need a license, helmet, insurance, or registration. The politicians started regulating it heavily in the 80s and moped sales slumped.

A candy bar was about 10 cents in the mid 70s then jumped to about 40 cents by the late 70s. Prices could be seen going up by the week at the grocery stores. Consumer electronics were much more expensive in the 70s compared with today's prices when adjusted for inflation.

Nixon initially appointed a good panel to investigate the allegations but when they started uncovering the truth, he fired them and put Robert Bork in their place to head the investigation. What a great guy. You may recall Bork was a failed nominee for the Supreme Court in the 1980s. After the failure, he appeared on Pat Robertson's 700 Club and spilled the beans about all the right wing religious fundamentalism he would have tried to push through the Supreme Court. There were number of Nixon buddies had who initially defended him but later changed their minds. Even Billy Graham dumped Nixon after more information surfaced.

The bi-centennial was marred by Nixon and Vietnam but people still had some enjoyment through it.

The political landscape started changing greatly around 1980. It's been conservative since then and became reactionary post-911.

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