That 70s Thread

[Mister Bent]

Born in the 70s! Damn you people make me feel old!

In 1974 I was 10, and in love with my older brother's 1970 Barracuda.

By 1976, it was Charlie's Angels - the start of my lifelong crush on Jaclyn Smith.

[cinderella]

You think that's bad...in 1974 I was 31!!
Has anyone mentioned platform shoes?

Originally Posted by Mister Bent

Born in the 70s! Damn you people make me feel old!

In 1974 I was 10, and in love with my older brother's 1970 Barracuda.

By 1976, it was Charlie's Angels - the start of my lifelong crush on Jaclyn Smith.

[Jet]

Great song from the 70s and prolly one of dozens that we partied to.
Born to Run was one of the hottest albums in '75 and
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10th Avenue Freeze Out

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktliuvsPa4g"]YouTube- Bruce Springsteen - Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out[/ame]

[Soft*Silver]

graduated in 1975
LOVED hash
hung out at a bar where a local biker gang hung out at
drank myself stupid every night. They took care of me because they knew my brother had just committed suicide in a very violent way
wore fringe jackets and Billy Jack hats
skinny dipped in the moonlight with other pot heads
watched the cranes at night in the quarries where we parked and fucked
listened to I can fly like an eagle while hotrodding down dirt country roads LONG before Starsky and Hutch was even a glimmer in some producer's eye
cant remember the music of the 70s until I hear it. Lots of black outs turned into memory loss...
made love in cornfields when the clover was in and the ground wasnt tore up yet
Burger King and McDonalds still served only beef and fish.
Barbie was queen
love beads died out and were replaced with mood rings

[Dean Thoreau]

graduated in 71....USAF .......... yes dick was up for election..could vote at age 18 and drink at 18........watergate.........
we left viet nam..after saying good bye to many friends....
a nickel bag of pot was only 5 dollars and u could gey 10 joints out of it.....
(well that is what i heard)
gallon of gas was 33.9 cents there was a shortage it went up to 49......... i could drive home on my honda 360T (500 miles) with $5.25 there were tolls to pay.
MASH was new........TB remotes had a 10 foot wire that was attached to the Tv..they called them clickers..cause they made a click click sound.
Cable TV was just beginning.....
The Goddess was the bars to go to in NYC, and peaches n bonnie n clydes....had my first orgasm at the Goddess (the drink)....fell in love every saturday night........
calculators were called adding machines..


telephones started making a sound if you got one with buttons....
the end of 70's craze was telephone sound songs.....(dont ask)

You woke up in 1972 to a song called "the happiest girl in the whole USA"

and in 1974 you streaked............ a ll neekid n stuff

a computer in 1974 took up the size of house to hold what you can on that little flash drive today..........

and Apple meant a fruit you picked off a tree.

[Jet]

Great post Dean. I remember it all and I'm right behind ya, Class of '74 which I'll show in here in a minute

[Jet]

I fell in love at 16 with a girl from another school. It ended in heartbreak when she told her parents about us and then went off to Vermillion to college. I drove a '66 cherry red Mustang my senior year and discovered the late Richard Brautigan. I smoked hash, did speed and mescalin and I went to the gay bar underaged every Saturday night until "Tank" the bouncer found out and banned us. It was a dark, seedy basement bar called "The Cave" and I always swore that if there was ever a fire, you'd never die from the blaze, you'd die from being trampled by queens in their high heels.

Some of the best times for me were in the 70s with great friends and concerts and parties. On my 30th reunion, I "outed" myself and no one batted an eye.

Isn't the passage of time amazing? Below, me at 16 and 52.

[Arwen]

I was that folkie chick that hung out with the band geeks and the NHS nerds. I wore clogs and love beads and wished I'd been born early enough to participate in the 60's. (missed it by thatmuch and was born in '61).

I was a Harry Chapin groupie as much as I could be (went to three or four concerts) and cried the day he died (8/18/85 in case anyone cares.) I spent my summers jumping off a rope into the bayou or canoeing down that same bayou by myself to read books.

The 70's were Steely Dan and Linda Rondstadt. I'm still a folkie chick at heart.

[Jet]

Drinkin', hittin' and lovin her to Lady Blue
I was a hippie...diggin' Leon Russell

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xDyq_RcSo8"]YouTube- Leon Russell lady blue[/ame]

[Jet]

Diggin sourthern progressive rock tonight...remembering the day
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpNOoq0kFds"]YouTube- Gregg Allman- Multi-Colored Lady[/ame]

[Happy_Go_Lucky]

[Rufusboi]

Originally Posted by Dean Thoreau

graduated in 71....USAF .......... yes dick was up for election..could vote at age 18 and drink at 18........watergate.........
we left viet nam..after saying good bye to many friends....
a nickel bag of pot was only 5 dollars and u could gey 10 joints out of it.....
(well that is what i heard)
gallon of gas was 33.9 cents there was a shortage it went up to 49......... i could drive home on my honda 360T (500 miles) with $5.25 there were tolls to pay.
MASH was new........TB remotes had a 10 foot wire that was attached to the Tv..they called them clickers..cause they made a click click sound.
Cable TV was just beginning.....
The Goddess was the bars to go to in NYC, and peaches n bonnie n clydes....had my first orgasm at the Goddess (the drink)....fell in love every saturday night........
calculators were called adding machines..


telephones started making a sound if you got one with buttons....
the end of 70's craze was telephone sound songs.....(dont ask)

You woke up in 1972 to a song called "the happiest girl in the whole USA"

and in 1974 you streaked............ a ll neekid n stuff

a computer in 1974 took up the size of house to hold what you can on that little flash drive today..........

and Apple meant a fruit you picked off a tree.

I think you mean a dime bag...it would last you a lifetime lol.

Rufus

[Rufusboi]

I graduated from High School in 1970.......when I woke up it was 1985

R

[WolfyOne]

Originally Posted by Rufusboi

I graduated from High School in 1970.......when I woke up it was 1985

R

I understand that, I missed part of the 80's myself. Didn't work for 3 years, but always had more money in my pockets than my friends that did work. One day reality comes along to slap me in the face and all of a sudden I'm a mature grown up, lol. Drugs unless a script no longer have a place in my life.

[Apocalipstic]

Originally Posted by Rufusboi

I think you mean a dime bag...it would last you a lifetime lol.

Rufus

and cost you $500 now

Class of 1981 here.

[WolfyOne]

Originally Posted by Rufusboi

I think you mean a dime bag...it would last you a lifetime lol.

Rufus

Nope, a nickel bag ($5) was a shot glass full and easily got 10 joints....I was bad in HS, I used to sell the stuff and my mom never cared as long as I didn't bring any other drugs home.

[Jet]

Remember "narks?" You suspected everybody or suspected anyone when there was talk. They were all over my high school. Graduated in '74.

[ProfPacker]

Originally Posted by Dean Thoreau

graduated in 71....USAF .......... yes dick was up for election..could vote at age 18 and drink at 18........watergate.........
we left viet nam..after saying good bye to many friends....
a nickel bag of pot was only 5 dollars and u could gey 10 joints out of it.....
(well that is what i heard)
gallon of gas was 33.9 cents there was a shortage it went up to 49......... i could drive home on my honda 360T (500 miles) with $5.25 there were tolls to pay.
MASH was new........TB remotes had a 10 foot wire that was attached to the Tv..they called them clickers..cause they made a click click sound.
Cable TV was just beginning.....
The Goddess was the bars to go to in NYC, and peaches n bonnie n clydes....had my first orgasm at the Goddess (the drink)....fell in love every saturday night........
calculators were called adding machines..


telephones started making a sound if you got one with buttons....
the end of 70's craze was telephone sound songs.....(dont ask)

You woke up in 1972 to a song called "the happiest girl in the whole USA"

and in 1974 you streaked............ a ll neekid n stuff

a computer in 1974 took up the size of house to hold what you can on that little flash drive today..........



and Apple meant a fruit you picked off a tree.

Are you sure it was the Goddess and not the Duchess! Wow, Peaches, upper east side, how about Paula's and the Lib (burnt down). You didn't go to Sahara..worked there when I was young. So much fun... and memories. Not to mention Fire Island Pines and Cherry Grove.

[Jet]

In memory of my friend, Patrick

______________________

Pat, how often I have thought of you through the years and how much I have wanted a few more hours, days— times reminiscent of the youngest and happiest times of my life with you. We owned the world then, or so we thought. I have missed you—high school, the bar, parties, the music, and those talks long into the morning until sunrise.

It's been nearly 40 years, and I'm thinking of you more than ever. Friends ask, but I tell them I was never able to find you again. At times, I just close my eyes and go back to a winter night with you, when the snow fell silently, listening to you share your deepest secrets over wine and music. Your loves and hopes and desires...and...

and I can still see you in the kitchen opening another bottle of wine that night. Oh, the agony of a time long past, and the ecstasy of remembering as though it were yesterday. The world was innocent—and different and safer then.

I never stopped loving you, and it's so hard to miss you. Thank you for some of the best times of my life and the ecstasy of being young and free.

[Jet]

Originally Posted by Dean Thoreau

graduated in 71....USAF .......... yes dick was up for election..could vote at age 18 and drink at 18........watergate.........
we left viet nam..after saying good bye to many friends....
a nickel bag of pot was only 5 dollars and u could gey 10 joints out of it.....
(well that is what i heard)
gallon of gas was 33.9 cents there was a shortage it went up to 49......... i could drive home on my honda 360T (500 miles) with $5.25 there were tolls to pay.
MASH was new........TB remotes had a 10 foot wire that was attached to the Tv..they called them clickers..cause they made a click click sound.
Cable TV was just beginning.....
The Goddess was the bars to go to in NYC, and peaches n bonnie n clydes....had my first orgasm at the Goddess (the drink)....fell in love every saturday night........
calculators were called adding machines..


telephones started making a sound if you got one with buttons....
the end of 70's craze was telephone sound songs.....(dont ask)

You woke up in 1972 to a song called "the happiest girl in the whole USA"

and in 1974 you streaked............ a ll neekid n stuff

a computer in 1974 took up the size of house to hold what you can on that little flash drive today..........

and Apple meant a fruit you picked off a tree.

I remember. Great post.