The much cooler 70's spirit

[PEACE FROG]

I remember 8 track tapes to be fairly indestructible however in my car, I remember having to shim the inserted tape with a matchbook to get it to play.

I remember it was very trendy cool to have the fat handle of your Goody comb sticking out of your back pocket.

Lyrics everyone recited whether you actually were singing along or not:
Skynyrd- intro to Sweet home Alabama, "TURN IT UP"
Skynyrd- Freebird live album, "WHAT SONG IS IT YOU WANNA HEAR"?
Frampton- Do you feel like we do, "THAT'S ALRIGHT, THATS ALRIGHT DEAR BOY".
Zeppelin- Stairway to heaven, "DOES ANYONE REMEMBER LAUGHTER?"


I remember that anything that you could dish a hole into was a candidate to become your next pipe.


I remember Avocado green and Real estate jacket gold (harvest gold) were the coolest colors available in appliances


I remember the birth of the air guitar. Something you learned to do up in your friend's room between bong hits and lying about your romantic conquests.

[LIBRA]

I love avocado green and harvest gold. I was born in 79...... :D

I remember that anything that you could dish a hole into was a candidate to become your next pipe.


This was true in the 90's too ;)

[PEACE FROG]

I remember people asking dad when he was gonna buy one of those new "Dish washing machines" for my mom, my dad always replied "I'm raising 5" (my brothers and I)

I remember the song lyric", First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is." My mom was so proud that she understood that the song writer was describing a caterpillar crawling. She'd tell us every time it came on, and her face would light up so. We always fained interest, no one had the heart to say "DUH MOM"!


I remember dad going up on the roof to adjust the antenna rotor when it rained. He would call out,"tell me when it's good" And through a line of sight communication we let him know when the picture was clear.


I remember our first T.V. remote. It connected by a wire across the room and was as big as a tissue box. And had many numbered buttons. It made a metallic "Plunk" when you changed the channel.


I remember going to the drive in movies. We had a 60' Dodge Dart wagon with the push button dash and an exterior crank handle rear window. Dad would back in, open up the back gate, hook the speaker to the window and we'd fall asleep with popcorn in our hair fighting over the location of siblings feet.


I remember that when the Dart broke down it was replaced by a brand new Ford Pinto.


I remember wearing a "Dickie" which was a fake turtleneck neck piece that you wore under your shirt.

[Hippie Staff]

I remember wearing a "Dickie" which was a fake turtleneck neck piece that you wore under your shirt.

Oh that made me laugh. My mom declared these as 'smart and tasteful' back in the day. I thought they were created by the devil. Those and polyester itchy stretch pants that she would order from the Sears catalog.

[Unkle_John]

I'm a '75 model. And it's funny b/c JuJu is 5 years younger than me and I remember so much of the 70's that she only knows from me and her parents. her parent's trailer was built in '75 and came stocked with avocado appliances and they still work!

We have a harvest gold fridge. Yeah, you'd think it's an energy hog, but it runs pretty streamlined & it's sturdier than what's made today. Plus it was free. Julie and I are collectors of things from the past 50's-70's (more recently the 70's). We have art work, furniture, dishes, you name it, we probably have it. My father has a working pop-up VCR that weighs a ton that he said we could have.

JuJu and I were out last week and found a Danish modern dining table and hutch set for $600 cash. I did research and it's almost triple that online. So when I get my stimulus check I'm going to buy it for her. We have a 1950's dinette set we are going to get rid of. We love the table, it just doesn't "fit" this house and our collection of Danish modern furniture. I would love to find a few sphere or egg chairs. Don't know where I would put it, but Juju would die for one. I'm going to take photos of our collection so you can see what we have.

But in the meantime, here are a few 8-track players I would love to have and a coffee maker we have (more photos to come):

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/unklejohn/ballstereo1.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/unklejohn/aquatron.jpg
My aunt has/had one of these. I need to get a hold of her to find out.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/unklejohn/Dscf0020.jpg
Modern style coffee maker. Makes a great pot of coffee.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/unklejohn/5675bj0.jpg
Remember us?

[PEACE FROG]

I remember running out in the morning and collecting Coke bottles. At 3 cents apiece, returning them for the deposit, in an hour I could score enough to have candy all day long.


I remember dad carrying an empty 6 pak of Pepsi bottles into the market. Every store had an area to drop off empties, he would stand there for a second until a cashier noticed him and acknowledged he had brought them before going and grabbing a new pak from the freezer case.


I remember that any mom could bust you, anywhere for anything. She would say "what is your name?" "I'm calling your mother"! If she didn't already have your number (strangely most of the time they did), she'd ask you, and you would tell her, because you would never dream of lying or disrespecting an adult.


I remember the Schwinn Stingray. Banging old forks over the ones on the bike so that they were double length for the chopper look. Riding double sometimes triple (without a helmet)

[CowboyHippy]

I've got an in dash 8 track player and box of 8 tracks

need to ebay it

[Gary Blanchard]

I remember:

Polyester leisure suits - especially the rust-color ones.
Polyester shirts with huge colorful designs.
Bell-bottoms morphing into "flares."
Platform shoes (but I never wore them).
Becoming slightly more mainstream.
Getting married.
Getting divorced.
Getting married again (that divorce came in the 80's :o).
Having a kid who turned out pretty good.
Trying to find myself (turned out I was never lost).

Thanks for stirring up memories. :D

[PEACE FROG]

I remember making fun of people wearing polyester leisure suits, especially my brother, who to this day, continues to provide me with enough material to write for Letterman. Such a dork.....


I remember polyester "Angel Flight" slacks. When worn with plats (platform shoes) made you a chick magnet.


I remember girls wearing "Ditto jeans" the ones with the horseshoe shaped seam around the back pockets. Perky.;)


I remember a product called "Sudden tan". A lotion for those who desired instant bronzing. However in actuality made you look more like an Oompa loompa, kinda orange. My brother Freddie used that stuff, he had racing stripes down his cheeks where his motorbike had made him tear up, and an orange "Ring around the collar"


I remember needing an ancient Chinese secret to get rid of "ring around the collar"

[Hippie Staff]

Dolphin shorts. OP shorts. Corduroys. Rainbow sweaters, Unicorn shirts. Those paintings on mirrors you could win at the fair. Feathered hair. Beads in hair. Pong video game. VW Hatchbacks where you could drive and get fumigated. The Fumigation Truck that would come down the streets and spray, and we'd all run for our lives. Asteroids. Sci-fi movies that had computer consoles with the numbers scrolling in manual form (non-digital), Land of the Lost

[PEACE FROG]

I remember walking to the movies with my best friend and my little brother to see a "Planet of the apes" double feature. $1.00 matinee, the walk downtown being as fun as the show.


I remember watching the daytime drama "dark shadows" with the older girls next door. Followed by a se'ance, where we attempted to raise Barnabas Collins from his eternal slumber. He was just a character on a T.V. show.... the older girls should have known better.


I remember "Clackers", which was two; 2 inch resin cast balls on each end of about a foot and a half piece of string. You started them much in the same way that you worked a paddle ball. They ricochet off each other high and low. These things could be a martial arts weapon and were soon banned in school. Too many seriously injured kids.


I remember gas lines around the block. And stations running out of gas, causing panics all over. My brothers and I heading out for the gas stations with radio flyer wagons filled with newspapers, donuts and hot coffee. We'd sell these things car to car at twice the price. In some cases people were waiting hours so they were glad to pay. You would think we would have turned out Republican, my brothers and I. But not a one of us, though I am suspicious of "polyester boy":D


I remember newspapers and phone calls costing a dime.

[Unkle_John]

I remember collecting bottles too. I think I bought a Star Wars figure at the local hardware store. I too had a stingray-style bike (it did have a banana seat). Infact I have a few street bike frames I'm restoring for me and JuJu. And you know what's sad Meg? They still run the fumigator trucks around here.

[PEACE FROG]

I remember that roller skates either had steel wheels for the side walk or wooden wheels for the rink. They also made some that clamped onto your street shoes.


I remember the first cell phone I ever saw, it looked more like a military walkie talkie. It was huge and came with a battery pack the size of a lunchmate cooler. Really too cumbersome to be a portable.


I remember the C.B. radio craze. Having a handle ( Like a username ) learning the 10 code; 10-4---Okay, 10-9---What?, 10-10---waiting, 10-20---Where?, You get the picture. There were C.B. radio clubs that had meetings called "breaks", they held "jamborees" and dances and they arrived in "convoys" to those destinations. They wore vests like bikers do with their club name in rockers or something depicting their "handles"on the back. The vests were also adorned with all kinds of engraved plastic badges, pins and buttons. You kinda could live out a fantasy persona, the more outrageous the better. And this was BIG. My handle BTW was COSMIC COWBOY.


I remember dad's first computer. It was a Comadore from radio shack. It didn't do anything, but seeing what you typed on a screen as you typed was amazing in those days. It looked alot like our computers in "safe mode".


I remember making mac n' cheese. Boiling macaroni, adding a little milk, a spoon of butter, and the shaving cheese into the pan (melts easier). Nothing instant and no microwave.

[Hippie Staff]

Snoopy SnowCone Machine

you put the ice cubes in,
and the snow comes out,
Yum Yum Fun is what it's all about!

[NCW_Woodnymph]

They I had one of those. I got mine in the early 90's though.:D My husband and I were just talking today about finding one for the kids, but they wouldn't know who snoopy was anyway.

:hippie:

[PEACE FROG]

I remember Jack in the Box tacos costing ten cents each. The perfect stoner food


I remember the family going to "The Worlds Faire" a dinning establishment where several types of food were represented. Not unlike a food court at the mall. afterward we would go to Thrifty drug store for nickel scoop ice cream.


I remember my 5th and 6th grade teacher Mr. Mills. He was a Hippy. He was an older man with long hair and a long beard. He rode a small motor bike and wore a communist china hat with a red star on the front. We did spin-art, tie-dye and belt weaving. He loved teaching square dancing.


I remember Spin art, you attached a blank post card to a spinning frame in a shroud type enclosure. You spurted different colors out of ketchup bottles on the spinning cardboard making beautiful patterns.


I remember feeling good about being able to draw the Mach five from Speed Racer better than anyone else in my class.

[Hippie Staff]

The Jack in the Box Tacos....oh flashback! The mystery meat inside. It was like a spicy paste wrapped in a fried corn tortilla..sealed at the top to keep all it's secrets inside. Those were so good.

Probably made from kangaroo.

[PEACE FROG]

I remember tiny souvenir baseball bats from the A's game. We played ball on our lawn, on our knees, with a ball of foil.


I remember McDonalds restaurant in my town had no inside sit down but a walk up window and big arches poking through the building.


I remember Taco bell serving hamburgers, they were called Bell Grande, and it was their taco meat on a bun.


I remember buying 45 records, being a kid short of funds and not wanting to take a chance that I wouldn't like the other songs. Later discovering that I liked artists, not songs necessarily. The album was more than the music it was cover art, notes or lyrics on the sleeve, info about the band and an escape from those pesky little yellow plastic 45 record adapters


I remember G.I. Joe with the Kung Fu grip, with life like hair, and some talked by pulling the dog tag. That was my little brothers version. Not as cool as the one that I had in the sixties

[Unkle_John]

Funny thing is, Jack-in-the-Box still sells those tacos, 2 for 99 cents still isn't a bad deal. They don't have one here in our area, but they have a taco stand called Lone wolf that sells tacos for 49 cents!!! Talk about stoner food! We had a restaurant here called Del Taco (I hear is still going in Cali) they used to serve hamburgers there, but they tasted like taco burgers. There is a chain here called Taco Villa that serves the same. Not as good as I remember them.

I remember when Pizza Hut pizza was the awesome and they used to serve beer.

They started to sell the Snoopy Sno Cone machine again. My sister had one of the originals. But somewhere we have a catalog that has a new one in it.

I still use a CB. When I worked for the Dept of Agriculture for this state, we had them equipped in our trucks. Funny thing is they asked us NOT to use 10-codes. We found out (almost the hard way) that when we installed the new engine and electronic ignition and computer in our old truck, that a CB radio could screw up the primitive computer we were installing. So we have a new CB we want to install in a mini-camper.

I remember Ziggy cartoons and comic strips.

I remember dressing up like KISS for Halloween with my cousins.

My first computer was a C-64 from radio shack also. We didn't have the Atari 2600 to play, we got the Magnavox Odyssey 2. But before that it was "electronic tennis" (AKA PONG).

I remember five and Dime stores. We had Motts and M.E. Moses. When they went out of business it was a sad day. I believe that was sometime in 96 or 97.

[LIBRA]

Awesome thread!!



I remember when everyone said totally, rad, tubular way to much

When penny candy was really a penny

buying blocks of cheese from the country store, it wasnt refridgerated just sat out on the counter

rainbow brite and friends

jem and the rockers

vanilla ice ice baby

roller skating at the rink and eating those fake onion ring chips, funions?

Girls bangs were more flamable then a flame thrower, aqua net destroyed the planet

the higher the bang the cooler you were

I remember tight rolling my pants, oh man that was bad

Mc hammer pants

Being in love with the new kids on the block, actually heart broken over them, ahhhh joey mcintyre bastard ruined my preteens

being able to walk to a friends house with no worries

then not being able to walk to my friends house and running away from every conversion van in site, they were kidnappers for sure.


the sweet smell of strawberry short cake, the doll

having the biggest antenna in the world and olny getting one chanel. My brother outside yelling is it good, we would bang on the wall if it was ok, then as soon as he would get inside it would go fuzzy, way funny

[Unkle_John]

Um Denise... I think you stepped off the time warp escalator too soon. Some of those are the 80's. Thats another thread I could fill up!!

[PEACE FROG]

I remember when we saved the planet from fluorocarbons with the birth of the pump sprayer and refraining from using arisol cans. Today we couldn't pull that off, conservatives would cry about being told what to do by radical left wing liberal hypocrites who are "secretly using hairspray and telling us we can't".


I remember that sun spots were going to destroy radio communications.


I remember according to Hal Lindsey and his best selling novel "The late great planet earth" that Armageddon was at hand. And we were all going to die.


I remember "Dianectics" by L. Ron Hubbard, which gave us Tom Cruise.


I remember The Rev. Jim Jones leading his followers, The People's Temple to Guyana where he established Jonestown. He was out of his mind on amphetamines and paranoid as hell. He killed congressman Leo Ryan and then his congregation by ordering mass suicide by cyanide poisoned Koolaid.


I remember Koolaid commercials where the Giant Grinning Koolaid pitcher busted through the brick wall singing like Frankie Valli. They never tried to capitalize on their "Guyana fame" however.

[PEACE FROG]

I remember learning about the Government branches, grammar and mathematics on Saturday morning watching Schoolhouse rock on ABC.


I remember having the biggest crush on Laurie Partridge of the partridge Family but later dumped her for Marie Osmond.


I remember Baretta's side kick a bird named Fred, he was a cockatoo. "And you can take that to the bank"


I remember hats made with panels from cut up Budweiser cans and crocheted together with yarn. Budweiser also found it's niche as a material pattern for curtains, pillows and pants for those who were really bold.


I remember the Bicentennial coins from the Shell gas station.



I remember Blue Chip stamps and S&H Greenstamps. They were like earning Flyer miles with your credit card that you could spend in a Sears wishbook.


I remember wearing Earth Shoes. Not the Chinese crap sold at Buy n Large but they were very cool handmade looking Shoes sloped backward with a wedge shaped toe.


I remember going CooCoo for Coco Puffs.

[NCW_Woodnymph]

I remember Captain Kangaroo getting ping pong balls dumped on his head (although that was technically reruns from the 70's).:D

:hippie:

[LIBRA]

I figured since we were all remembering Id throw my memories in too, I was born in 79 so I dont remember much from then,lol All I gots is the 80's. And I wish I didnt, the 80's were strange. :D

[NCW_Woodnymph]

I really think the 80's are the decade best forgotten. I'm really disturbed that those styles are coming back. I suppose I can deal with it as long as they leave out the big hair. :D

:hippie: