That 70s Thread

[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]

Went to dances and concerts wearing
tie-dyed shirts and studs down my elephant bells
I remember smokin' hash and drinking
Bartels & James on a hot summer night listening to:
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Wet Willie and Grand Funk Railroad

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSQOeQakExU"]YouTube- Grand Funk Railroad - The Locomotion[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg0BNTebcbY"]YouTube- Wet Willie Keep On Smiling[/ame]

[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]

[Hudson]

I miss Madeline Kahn.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWrCf7rAytc"]YouTube- Young Frankenstein[/ame]

[turasultana]

The Bugaloos

[turasultana]

Don Kirshner's Rock Concert

[Lillie]

I was born in 68..but I grew up in the projects in nyc...we played manhunt on the roof of the buildings..hoola hooped till out hips broke! lol. waited to hear the distant ding of johnny the ice cream man..ran to your building and yelled like mad for your mom to throw down 50 cents for some ice cream....praying the street lights didn't come on so we didn't have to go home..getting stuck over and over again in the elevator with my friend mary..listening and probably wearing out the our kiss album..."beth" was my favorite song..of course I had no idea what it meant..but mary liked it so I had to like it too... walking into the kitchen buck ass nekkid with our arms extended so my mom could rub calamine lotion all over my sister and me..we had the mumps!...living without air conditioning and running through the fire hydrants the very cook firemen oppened every saturday afternoon..my dad taking me to emergency room on his motorcycle with my knee bleeding like the dickens cause of course I went where I wasn't suppose to DOH!...watching baretta right before the blackout...and being upset that the tv didn't come back on...tracing the velvet pattern in the wallpaper in our living room...ALWAYS trying to take more and more steps until you could completly jump from landing to landing without hitting any of the steps on the way down..it was a right of passage..oh my poor aching knees now lol...

ahh...what a sweet walk down memory lane..

[cinderella]

Lillie, I too lived in the projects in Manhattan - Jacob Riis Projects on the Lower East Side. My mom lived in that apartment for 35 years!! That's where we grew up.

Your post brought back such memories. I grew up in the 50's, way before you were born, and I dare say, more innocent times. But I too had to get in the house before the streetlights went on, I too yelled for change when the Good Humor, or the other one (Mr. Softy?) came 'round. Mom would wrap the change in a small paper bag - no plastic bags then - or a small rag, and throw it down. We used to play Skelly (melted wax in bottlecaps to weight them down), hopscotch, kick-the-can, double-Dutch jumprope, jacks, red-light-green-light one two three, roller skates - the kind that had a key, were all metal, and were very noisy, and so many other games. It was so much fun. No kids I know today do that sort of thing - they're all behind computers now. It's no wonder kids are overweight and out of shape - they sit all day!!

Thanks for the memories, Lillie - you made my day!!

Originally Posted by Lillie

I was born in 68..but I grew up in the projects in nyc...we played manhunt on the roof of the buildings..hoola hooped till out hips broke! lol. waited to hear the distant ding of johnny the ice cream man..ran to your building and yelled like mad for your mom to throw down 50 cents for some ice cream....praying the street lights didn't come on so we didn't have to go home..getting stuck over and over again in the elevator with my friend mary..listening and probably wearing out the our kiss album..."beth" was my favorite song..of course I had no idea what it meant..but mary liked it so I had to like it too... walking into the kitchen buck ass nekkid with our arms extended so my mom could rub calamine lotion all over my sister and me..we had the mumps!...living without air conditioning and running through the fire hydrants the very cook firemen oppened every saturday afternoon..my dad taking me to emergency room on his motorcycle with my knee bleeding like the dickens cause of course I went where I wasn't suppose to DOH!...watching baretta right before the blackout...and being upset that the tv didn't come back on...tracing the velvet pattern in the wallpaper in our living room...ALWAYS trying to take more and more steps until you could completly jump from landing to landing without hitting any of the steps on the way down..it was a right of passage..oh my poor aching knees now lol...

ahh...what a sweet walk down memory lane..

[Lillie]

WOW..skelly!..we use to melt crayons into bottle caps...holy shit that seriously was a memory tucked away..I grew up on Staten Island in the Todt Hill Projects....red light green light..mother may I...truth or dare..back when it was innocent..YAH RIGHT..haha...my mom threw down the money and we hunted like crazed animals for those shiny quarters lol...but remember getting halfway there and you heard her voice calling you back...(amazing how no matter where in the projects you were..you heard your momma calling you LOL ) all because she decided she wanted an ice cream too! lol...wow I feel 10 yrs old again..I loved that tim mcgraw song...that was the first time a song truly brought me back to the projects.. ( I will post the lyrics at the end ) My father owned the local laundromat in south beach (staten Island) we use to go down to the south beach rides then run back up the hill to get a dr pepper or orange fanta out of my dads pop machine...and oh my god we thought we died and gone to candy heaven when he put in a candy machine..of course since he owned it..we had the keys..i ate rolo's and drank orange fanta till i puked lol...of course the endless amount of energy and eating honey suckle and picking blueberries on top of the soda and rolo's did not help the belly! LOL

so here is the song that is soooooooo very true!!

Don't you remember
The fizz in a pepper
Peanuts in a bottle
At ten, two and four
A fried bologna sandwich
With mayo and tomato
Sittin' round the table
Don't happen much anymore

We got too complicated
It's all way over-rated
I like the old and out-dated
Way of life

Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu
I miss back when
I miss back when
I miss back when

I love my records
Black, shiny vinyl
Clicks and pops
And white noise
Man they sounded fine
I had my favorite stations
The ones that played them all
Country, soul and rock-and-roll
What happened to those times?

I'm readin' Street Slang For Dummies
Cause they put pop in my country
I want more for my money
The way it was back then

Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu
I miss back when
I miss back when
I miss back when

Give me a flat top for strumming
I want the whole world to be humming
Just keep it coming
The way it was back then

Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu
I miss back when
I miss back when
I miss back when

Originally Posted by cinderella

Lillie, I too lived in the projects in Manhattan - Jacob Riis Projects on the Lower East Side. My mom lived in that apartment for 35 years!! That's where we grew up.

Your post brought back such memories. I grew up in the 50's, way before you were born, and I dare say, more innocent times. But I too had to get in the house before the streetlights went on, I too yelled for change when the Good Humor, or the other one (Mr. Softy?) came 'round. Mom would wrap the change in a small paper bag - no plastic bags then - or a small rag, and throw it down. We used to play Skelly (melted wax in bottlecaps to weight them down), hopscotch, kick-the-can, double-Dutch jumprope, jacks, red-light-green-light one two three, roller skates - the kind that had a key, were all metal, and were very noisy, and so many other games. It was so much fun. No kids I know today do that sort of thing - they're all behind computers now. It's no wonder kids are overweight and out of shape - they sit all day!!

Thanks for the memories, Lillie - you made my day!!

[Happy_Go_Lucky]

[Bèsame*]

[Happy_Go_Lucky]

[Okiebug61]

I had yellow walls, green shag carpet. The rainbow colors of fishnets hanging from my bedroom ceiling. Beads hanging in my doorway, a happy face light shade, a chain of old beer tabs strung around the room. Black light posters, an TV with an orange case, a record player that I played non stop and my own little place in this world. :-). I am thankful for those years. :-)

[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.