That 70s Thread

[Rufusboi]

Originally Posted by WolfyOne

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.

Wolfy - I hate to even take anything prescription anymore. I even try to avoid things like Tylenol. What happened! From the 70s to a corporate job climbing the ladder!!

Rufus

[Jet]

Curtis Mathis TVs
Zenith TVs
Panasonic tape recorders with built -in radios
AM radio
Top 40 Radio
Mediterranean furniture
Avocado appliances
Avocado and royal blue decor
Shag carpet
Chevy Novas
Buick Opels
Melmac dishes
Interstate speed limit of 75 mph speed at all times
Boone's Farm
Dog collars (chokers)
Elephant leg bells
Bear traps (sandals)
Shag haircut
Aviator glasses
Movie ratings: G, R, and X
Love Story
Ali McGraw
"Roots" mini-series based on Alex Haley's novel
The Great White Hope
Jaws
Eye of The Needle
Ryan's Daughter
Five Easy Pieces
Chinatown
Stepford Wives
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Pep Club '71
Homecoming '73
Prom '74
Graduation '74
the list goes on.....

[Cyclopea]

Speaking of retro drugs, narcs, etc. Does anyone else remember Toma, or similar anti-drug folks working the high school/ junior high speaking circut?
He's still around!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcYW7RvecVU"]YouTube- WHY DAVID TOMA SPEAKS ABOUT DRUGS, ALCOHOL & TEENAGE PREGNANCY[/ame]

Love It!

Or Florrie Fisher- she was the inspiration for the Amy Sedaris series "Strangers With Candy":
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1te8DbKaNnY"]YouTube- Florrie Fisher[/ame]

[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.

[WolfyOne]

Originally Posted by Ol' Jet

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

I do remember narks. Had my locker searched once. Vice Principal never found a thing and never looked again. Someone really had to be stupid to leave that stuff in a locker.

[Apocalipstic]

Yep, we had narks, they would bring the drug dogs in and search our lockers. Never kept anything there, kept it in my car or purse in my Ray Bans case .

I remember the 80's, but there is a lot of it I wish I didn't.

[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.