That 70s Thread

[Califan007]

Ok, you know the routine...start posting things about the 1970's that you hate to admit you loved, songs you hate to admit you owned, groups you hate to admit you followed, clothes you hate to admit you wore...or post things form the 70s that you love to admit you loved lol..either/or...

I'll start...ready?..here we go..

* Heatwave...LOVED this group..."Boogie Nights", "Always and Forever", "The Grooveline"...I thought they were the funkiest **** around for about 2 years or so.

* Top 50 Bachelor issues of Ebony magazine lol...those pics cracked me up back then, and do even more now when I'm able to stumble upon an issue...guys leanin' up against their Monte Carlo with big-ass fro's, thick sideburns, and collars so wide that a wind gust would make them airborne...

* George Allen...I loved seeing him on the sidelines of Redskins games, energetic, intense...and then that ridiculously sly smile he would thrown down with ease :yes:...

* ELO...I admit it, I was also a big ELO fan..."Turn To Stone" was my jam for about 2 years...I thought Jeff Lynn was a musical master, and I still get a rise out of hearing "Living Thing"...when that came at the end of the movie "Boogie Nights", I thought it made the perfect ending to an almost perfect movie.

*"Seasons In The Sun" lol..don't remember at all who sang this tripe, but at the time I thought it was just a beautiful song...what was I, 8 or so??...what did I know..:ols:

* Who sang that one song that went "The child is black/the child is white", blah, blah, whatever whatever??...."the word is black/the page is white", or some ****...help me out here...but used to like that one, too...

* Anything by Bill Withers...

*"Round In Circles", by Billy Preston...was addicted to that one as well...

* Every damn thing Stevie Wonder put out, I bowed down in worship to...especially "You Haven't Done Nothin'"...funky as hell.

* Isis, Electra Woman, and Dyna Girl lol :cool:...they all caught the attention of my burgeoning horemones back then...

Isis because of her legs and ridiculously short dress *drool*...

http://www.marvelfamily.com/images/tv-movies/IsisTV/stills/Isis010.jpg


EW and DG because they wore form-fitting body suits lol :ols:...

http://retrorambling.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/01644_super.jpg


Big Wheels :thumbsup:

http://www.toyandtrain.com/bigwheel.jpg

It was like the Camaro of kids toys lol...hated how the front wheel would start desintigrating and falling apart in little black pieces, though.



Anyone else?...

[China]

ABBA. I liked ELO as well.

Seasons in the Sun was by Terry Jacks BTW. I fell for most of those one hit wonders.

How about Ray Stevens, The Streak (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtzoUu7w-YM)?

I'm not posting pictures of myself in the seventies although I had some fabulously ugly green and red Toughskins as well as hideously striped shirts with zipper tops. Oh, and a nice bowl haircut. :) You get the general idea with some of these pictures from the 1977 JC Penney Catalog (http://15minutelunch.blogspot.com/2007/10/strap-in-shut-up-and-hold-on-were-going.html)

I didn't get the handheld Coleco football game I wanted, I got the crappy auto racing one instead:

http://igc10.zapak.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Auto-Race.jpg

[Califan007]

How about Ray Stevens, The Streak (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtzoUu7w-YM)?
:ols:...Yeah, that was definitely a 70s song.

Also gotta love Kung Fu Fighting (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZGMVKaLLOI&feature=related) by Carl Douglas.

[hail2skins]

Cali, that one song you mentions sounds like Cat Stevens, but I'd have to check.

Edit: It was Three Dog Night.

[Predicto]

Sonny vs Billy (I was a Sonny man, all the way).

[Califan007]

Cali, that one song you mentions sounds like Cat Stevens, but I'd have to check.

Edit: It was Three Dog Night.

Yep, thank you lol :yes:...


The ink is black
The page is white
Together we learn to read and write
The child is black
The child is white
The whole world looks upon the sight
The beautiful sight

[hail2skins]

What about Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley on ABC? Didn't Three's Company start in the 70s too? Man, what cheesy comedies.

You could probably have a thread with old timers just focused on the Skins alone during that timeframe. I was too young to have experienced the '72 Super Bowl season but remember things from 1973 on. The Giants and Eagles sucked during the early-to-mid 70s, and the Cowboys, Cardinals, and Skins were good. Unfortunately, we wound up having to go on the road in the playoffs, and would fall short against the Vikings and Rams.

[Califan007]

Oh, and I LOVED 70s disaster movies lol..

The Poseiden Adventure

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b38/true-diva/PoseidonAdventurePoster.jpg



Towering Inferno

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/5/5c/20070726124712!Towering_inferno_movie_poster.jpg




Earthquake (with the rumbling seats to make it feel like you were actually in an earthquake :ols: )

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/78/MPW-39114

[Chump Bailey]

I actually liked quite a few shirt styles back then - not the pants though.
I loved the music: disco and motown - still do.
I loved TV back then and could not get enough. I easily spent 6 hours a day watching sitcoms, game shows.
I remember the TV series Cliffhangers too for some reason. I liked watching The Curse of Dracula with my family in the evening.

[Rudechain]

Those were all great movies. Does anyone remember The Wiz with Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Richard Pryor and Nipsy Russell? Blazing Saddles came out that decade and it's still one of my favorites. ( MONGO LIKE CANDY)


I remember that's when we first got cable TV ( no remotes back then, you had to go up and change it on the box)

Star Wars came out and I must have watched it a hundred times. We had the old style GI Joe, not the little tiny action figure but one the size of Barbie and Ken.

WKRP in Cincinatti, All in the Family, Six Million Dollar man and Charlies Angels were all good show.

It's kind of nostalgic really.

[Bang]

The hair. Feathered or Farrah Flipped.. everyone either had a comb in their back pocket or their hand.
Designer jeans on the girls skin tight, but waistlines way up high. Guys too, for that matter. I know I wore jeans that didn't leave much guesswork as to what I had. Girls walking around with camel toes so pronounced you could tell when they grew a new hair.
Girls in tube tops were pretty awesome, I must say.

Muscle cars and mag wheels were big, as were vans with giant murals painted on them.
A guy I knew when I was a kid painted those vans up behind the apartments I lived in in Forestville. He was a pretty cool dude. Painted some awesome stuff,, lots of frazetta art on vans that you saw in the DC area came from him. Phil Jones was his name, as I recall, we called him Big Phil.

Arcades. Pocketfull of quarters and you could play PINBALL all afternoon. Pre-Space Invaders.
Speaking of which, I remember pinball, with FIVE balls and needing a reasonable score to pop. We played pinball religiously. A friend and I figured out the match pattern on a machine at Parkland Bowling alley in district Heights and would go up there with a couple quarters, and then tilt it on the last ball when we had the right combo.. pop! free game. Play all damn day on 50 cents or so.


Slurpee cups with baseball players on them.

Zodiac signs.. people actually gave a crap about that stuff like it was cool.

Pendants.. either zodiac signs or italian horns.. you had to wear one to set off your attempt at perfectly feathered hair and open collar.
I wore an ankh.


I was too big when Big Wheel came out,, which sucked because it looked awesome.


~Bang

[Califan007]

"Chevy Van", by...some guy, I dunno lol..."And like a picture she was laying there/Moonlight dancing on her hair/She woke up and took me by the hand/We made love in my Chevy van/And that's alright with me..."

"Brandy", by...some other guy..."Brandy/You're a fine girl/What a good wife you will be/But my life, my love and my lady/Is the sea...(do, do, dooo, do, do, doop do do!!)"

[pjfootballer]

*EW and DG because they wore form-fitting body suits lol :ols:...

http://retrorambling.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/01644_super.jpg

...

Wow, I forgot about EW and DG


Oh, and I LOVED 70s disaster movies lol..

The Poseiden Adventure

Towering Inferno

Earthquake (with the rumbling seats to make it feel like you were actually in an earthquake :ols: )


Don't forget about all the Airport/Airplane disaster movies.

[Bang]

Chevy Van was the Eagles, and Brandy was The Association (I think)

~Bang

[pjfootballer]

Pendants.. either zodiac signs or italian horns.. you had to wear one to set off your attempt at perfectly feathered hair and open collar.
I wore an ankh.

I was too big when Big Wheel came out,, which sucked because it looked awesome.

~Bang

Don't forget about ID bracelets. I had the Italian Horn. I wanted a Big Wheel so bad. My parents never bought be one and I still give them hell to this day about it.

[Kilmer]

Come on. 70's? You talkin bout the 70's?
THIS was the 70's
http://www.mposter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/jaws-2.jpg

http://everseradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/star_wars_poster.jpg

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-poster.jpg

[Bang]

http://www.nndb.com/films/729/000033630/jaws-3-sized.jpg

http://images2.boxwish.com/profile_images/profile/1042/poster_exorcist.jpg

~Bang

[Califan007]

Chevy Van was the Eagles, and Brandy was The Association (I think)

~Bang

Chevy Van wasn't by the Eagles...not sure who did it, but it wasn't the Eagles lol.

---------- Post added August-5th-2011 at 04:28 PM ----------

Every 12 year old boy in the 70s pretended to be this guy at least once while riding a bike over a hand-made ramp :ols:...



http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2007/evel_knievel/evel_knievel_01.jpg

[Bang]

Chevy Van wasn't by the Eagles...not sure who did it, but it wasn't the Eagles lol.[COLOR="Gold"]



Maybe Black Sabbath then

~Bong

[Forehead]

"Brandy", by...some other guy..."Brandy/You're a fine girl/What a good wife you will be/But my life, my love and my lady/Is the sea...(do, do, dooo, do, do, doop do do!!)"

Just an FYI, my Dad raised me on "oldies" music and I used to have almost everything about the 60's and early 70's memorized. Brandy was written performed by a one-hit wonder band called Looking Glass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Glass_(band)). I did have to look up the year, it was 1972.

Anyway, I was born in late December of '79, so I was really more of a child of the 80's, but I've seen pictures of my father, and they make me shudder.

The way too high fat stripe tube socks...

http://www.fatwallet.com/static/attachments/100540_tubesocks.jpg

The way too short shorts

The ruffled shirts...I haven't burned the pictures because they're my father, but I hide them away.

Also, there's a particular style of house that just screams "70's" to me, but I don't know what it's called, or even if it's a 70's thing, I just think it is. If I knew what it was called, I'd post a picture.

[Park City Skins]

Ah yes the 70's. Bell bottom jeans,(really cool of you had corduroy bell bottom),chokers,and hair,(long), split right down the middle. I remember starting one of these about 6 years ago,but it's cool to refresh things so this will work just fine. that and I included the 60's. :) However,I'll said some of what I said there,(too tired and lazy to think too much. ;) ).


http://www.extremeskins.com/showthread.php?94950-Okay.-So.-What-about-the-60-s-and-the-70-s


"The Electric companyyyyyyyyy"
Barbie was Barbie and Ken was Ken.
GI Joe with hair and the kung fu grip
Leisure suits
Terrycloth shirts
You know what a turntable was/is. ( Hint. It's not found in your cabinet holdng spices).
You know that 45's were not always sold at gunshops.
mono/stereo
You know the the amount of time it takes to get a 45 perfectly centered on the "turntable" when you lose the 45 "dohickey".
Fuzz on the needle could wreck a good party
Your bike had a 3 speed on the bar, (ouch), a sissy bar and a bannana seat.


To name a few. :)

[China]

Apparently Chevy Van was by Sammy Johns.

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And Morgan Freeman was a member of the Electric Company (here he is with Rita Moreno):

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In the '70s I'd watch shows like Ultraman:

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And Speed Racer:

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and Kimba the White Lion:

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And let's not forget classics such as H.R. Puf n' Stuf:

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and Land of the Lost:

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[aREDSKIN]

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http://cdn3.iofferphoto.com/img/item/158/699/765/original-70-s-click-clacks-clackers-popper-knockers-1-388d6.jpg

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http://www.thesupercars.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Plymouth-Duster.jpg

[DRSmith]

I remember watching Battle Star Galatica and having my Six Million Dollar Man lunchbox.

Most clothes being made from polyester feathered hair

[Lombardi's_kid_brother]

If you were really young in the 70s, you loved concepts more than actual things.

For me, I loved Evil Kenevil even though I was not 100 percent sure what he did and I loved Kiss even though I was not allowed to listen to their music. I just loved their outfits.
I did make my parents buy Village People records though.

I liked Ultra Man. I liked going to the drive in. I liked Underoos. I liked my R2D2 t shirt. (It was a great time for unironic t-shirts). My favorite song was Rhinestone Cowboy.

[cneil4]

I loved the seventies...I was a preteen at the end of it. Here is what I loved

Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, The Beatles, My Redskins football jacket with leather sleeves, Star Wars (which led to mass produced toy lines), Tron, The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, Wonder Woman, The Hulk, Saturday Night Live, Atari 2600, Microwaves, and Muscle Cars.

What I didn't like

Gas Crisis, Inflation, Cold War, Iran Hostage Crisis.

45563

[Destructis]

I was born in 1960 so the 70's were my teen years. So here are some of the things that come to mind first thing.

Skynryd's plane crash
Muscle cars and all of the movies that featured them. Like "Eat my Dust" with Ron Howard.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68bGnNYNgsM

Vanishing Point


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA4ymmXa8rs

The original Gone in 60 Seconds


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh6WNRoqLXI

[Kilmer]

Oh hell. You gonna do Kimba and Ultraman, I gotta up the ante with Marine Boy and Jonny Sokko...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HqSkY4vtVY


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POsk1y68avo

---------- Post added August-6th-2011 at 11:24 PM ----------

For good measure...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MtAMc4i8OA

Classic.

[Spearfeather]

Hate to admit I was a big Kiss fan for a few years. Haven't put on one of their albums in 30 years. ( but I did have most of them ).

Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley, along with Good Times ( loved Thelma ), What's Happening, Kung Fu, Planet of the Apes, Six Million Dollar Man, and yes, The Dukes.

I used to buy 45's at a local drugstore for 99 cents. Toto - Hold the Line. Hot Chocolate - Everyone's a Winner ( with that cool guitar lick ) Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street, Rubberband Man - The Spinners,
Everytime I Think of You - The Baby's. Crazy Love - Poco, My Sharona - The Knack, Heart of Glass- Blondie, just to name a few.

The Evel Kneivel that you wound up, hit the button, and off he would go....hopefully over the ramp.

Stretch Armstrong.

Saturday mornings...Grape Ape, Speed Buggy, Laff-a-lympics, Land of the Lost.

[Chump Bailey]

Land of the Lost.

Loved that show!

Cartoons for me revolved heavily around The Justice League, Herculoids, Space Ghost, Tom & Jerry

[england]

the osmonds and the jackson 5

[Yusuf06]

Great thread!

Big Wheels kicked major arse. I had the one with the handbrake you could use to do doughnuts. All kinds of awesome.

Sanford and Son, All in the Family & Good Times. Music wise, Stevie Wonder, Sylvester, Two Tons of Fun, Convoy and Disco Duck. Yeah Baby!!

[China]

Keep America Beautiful:

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[twa]

[/COLOR]Every 12 year old boy in the 70s pretended to be this guy at least once while riding a bike over a hand-made ramp :ols:...



I can blame his influence for a bunch of destroyed bikes and scars,on the plus side I learned to repair them LOL

these bring back memories
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I enjoyed the hell out of the 70's

[DM72]

I remember staying up many of nights playing this in bed.

http://www.pqdvd.com/blog/iphone/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/iphone-football.jpg

[HailGreen28]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9a/Scooby-gang-1969.jpghttp://xmoons.com/data_images/daisy-duke-picture.jpghttp://www.hollywoodyesterday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/charlies-angels-farah-kate-jaclyn.jpg

[Yusuf06]

Whoever mentioned the show Cliffhanger is automatically kewl. :) That show was great.

Desert boots, afros, and those poly t-shirts with pics of dirtbikers, racers, etc. were all da bomb. Sadly my Grandmother wasn't having any of that hippie stuff. :mad:

Leo Sayer, Elton John, and the Doobie Bros. FTW

[Park City Skins]

Now this was how to spend some of those Summer Friday nights. Midnight Special.

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Ol Pete there was a bit of a problem at first. As teenage guys,we had to hate him because all the girls thought he was cute,but at the same time,he had some great music on that album,so we could like him,(that and play him on while on a date and..... :) ). As for a "guilty pleasure.



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Hey. Xylophone solo. :D

[Kosher Ham]

You guys are all jerks for reminding me how old I am.

I am shocked no one has mentioned Three's Company.

Janet, Chrissy, and then the other randoms.

EDIT: Not to mention Diff'rent Strokes.

[Bubble Screen]

Haven't read through the whole thread. But has anyone mentioned Jaws? Talk about your classic films.

---------- Post added August-8th-2011 at 01:45 AM ----------


You guys are all jerks for reminding me how old I am.

I am shocked no one has mentioned Three's Company.

Janet, Chrissy, and then the other randoms.

EDIT: Not to mention Diff'rent Strokes.

Someone mentioned Three's Company earlier. While cheesy, I absolutely loved that show. Janet and Chrissy had it going on.

---------- Post added August-8th-2011 at 01:48 AM ----------


the osmonds and the jackson 5

Speaking of which: Anyone seen Marie Osmond lately? She looks amazing for her age.

[Lombardi's_kid_brother]

I loved the seventies...I was a preteen at the end of it. Here is what I loved

Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, The Beatles, My Redskins football jacket with leather sleeves, Star Wars (which led to mass produced toy lines), Tron, The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, Wonder Woman, The Hulk, Saturday Night Live, Atari 2600, Microwaves, and Muscle Cars.

What I didn't like

Gas Crisis, Inflation, Cold War, Iran Hostage Crisis.

45563

I find your post ironic as the Eagles were worse than the Iran Hostage Crisis.

[HailGreen28]

I find your post ironic as the Eagles were worse than the Iran Hostage Crisis.Take it easy. One of these nights, you'll get over it. I wish you peace.

[China]

Apparently I watched too much TV in the 70s, probably all those Saturday morning cartoons:

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[DM72]

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[China]

Oh, and we can't forget Schoolhouse Rock:

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[Kosher Ham]

Schoolhouse Rock was better than any of the kids shows these days.

[DM72]

Schoolhouse Rock was better than any of the kids shows these days.

Yes it is. Saturdays were special back then.

[england]

the banana splits
treasure island arabian knights

[China]

Fat Albert:

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[DM72]

Since we're on a Saturday morning theme:

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[Woofer]

The hair. Feathered or Farrah Flipped.. everyone either had a comb in their back pocket or their hand.
Designer jeans on the girls skin tight, but waistlines way up high. Guys too, for that matter. I know I wore jeans that didn't leave much guesswork as to what I had. Girls walking around with camel toes so pronounced you could tell when they grew a new hair.
Girls in tube tops were pretty awesome, I must say.

Muscle cars and mag wheels were big, as were vans with giant murals painted on them.
A guy I knew when I was a kid painted those vans up behind the apartments I lived in in Forestville. He was a pretty cool dude. Painted some awesome stuff,, lots of frazetta art on vans that you saw in the DC area came from him. Phil Jones was his name, as I recall, we called him Big Phil.

Arcades. Pocketfull of quarters and you could play PINBALL all afternoon. Pre-Space Invaders.
Speaking of which, I remember pinball, with FIVE balls and needing a reasonable score to pop. We played pinball religiously. A friend and I figured out the match pattern on a machine at Parkland Bowling alley in district Heights and would go up there with a couple quarters, and then tilt it on the last ball when we had the right combo.. pop! free game. Play all damn day on 50 cents or so.


Slurpee cups with baseball players on them.

Zodiac signs.. people actually gave a crap about that stuff like it was cool.

Pendants.. either zodiac signs or italian horns.. you had to wear one to set off your attempt at perfectly feathered hair and open collar.
I wore an ankh.


I was too big when Big Wheel came out,, which sucked because it looked awesome.


~Bang

I remember that arcade in Parkland. Spent lots of time and quarters there. There was an arcade like that at the Great Eastern Plaza Shopping Center on Marlboro Pike. We'd skip school and head there a lot of afternoons. I remember this one race game that had about five lanes and some kind of car that you controlled on a lever. The car you controlled was transparent, so I always figured it was some kind of trick with light and glass - but if you hit a car, the lever would flip your car and you'd fall behind.

There was an asteroids game there too for a while. I actually got pretty good at that one.

I liked Olivia Newton-John when she was mellow.

I used to ride my bike all over District Hghts. Yellow 10-speed with racing handle-bars. Going up to the Tastee-Freeze, then heading down to the Center to play football with my friends on summer days.

Man. I miss those days.

[Goskinz0721]

Ah yes the 70's. Bell bottom jeans,(really cool of you had corduroy bell bottom),chokers,and hair,(long), split right down the middle. I remember starting one of these about 6 years ago,but it's cool to refresh things so this will work just fine. that and I included the 60's. :) However,I'll said some of what I said there,(too tired and lazy to think too much. ;) ).


http://www.extremeskins.com/showthread.php?94950-Okay.-So.-What-about-the-60-s-and-the-70-s


"The Electric companyyyyyyyyy"
Barbie was Barbie and Ken was Ken.
GI Joe with hair and the kung fu grip
Leisure suits
Terrycloth shirts
You know what a turntable was/is. ( Hint. It's not found in your cabinet holdng spices).
You know that 45's were not always sold at gunshops.
mono/stereo
You know the the amount of time it takes to get a 45 perfectly centered on the "turntable" when you lose the 45 "dohickey".
Fuzz on the needle could wreck a good party
Your bike had a 3 speed on the bar, (ouch), a sissy bar and a bannana seat.


To name a few. :)

You forgot 8-track tapes and the ever so advanced Quad 8-track

[Disco Dave]

Watching cartoons on Saturday mornings!

The Carol Burnett Show
The Dukes of Hazzard
The Wonderful World of Disney on Sunday nights
Starblazers

Six million Dollar Man action figure
I still have my Shogun Warriors Godzilla http://weirdscifi.ratiosemper.com/shogun/godzilla.html

[China]

My wife just informed me that Barry Manilow is playing at the Warner Theater:

http://www.barrymanilow.com/2011Tickets.html

Or was it the Copa, Copacabana...

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:puke:

[Park City Skins]

You forgot 8-track tapes and the ever so advanced Quad 8-track

Didn't forget. Just hadn't posted it yet. Like I said. To name a few. I'm not THAT old......yet. ;)

Yeah. Okay. So I watched this show.

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[China]

Yeah. Okay. So I watched this show.

Well, of course, because Robert Conrad was such a badass. I mean, after all, you couldn't even knock a battery off of his shoulder.

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[Bang]

http://newswires-americas.com/uploads/markettalk/2010/07/Keep-on-Truckin.jpg

http://p.maquaire.free.fr/heeza/thetroc/Freak1.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/hd.engadget.com/media/2008/03/maxell_maninchair_030408.jpg

http://www.gregdooley.com/images/lasthueysaigon1.jpg

http://galaxywire.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/apollo-soyuz-test-projec-space-art.jpg

http://www.tuques.com/images/jacques_cousteau_toque.jpg

~Bang

[China]

http://www.blogcdn.com/hd.engadget.com/media/2008/03/maxell_maninchair_030408.jpg



I had this poster in my dorm room in college.

Here's the TV ad (video) version:

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[thebluefood]

Schoolhouse Rock was better than any of the kids shows these days.

Agreed, and I'm not even a child of the 1970s. They used to show SchoolHouse Rock during One Saturday Morning on ABC when I was a youngin'.

[pjfootballer]

I have all Speedracer and Schoolhouse Rock on DVD.

You guys hit the nail on the head with alot of these memories:

Marine Boy
Evel Kneivel
Short Shorts
Tube socks up to the knees with stripes (had to match w/outfit)
Terrycloth shirts (had a couple)
All the Saturday morning cartoon
HR Puffenstuff
Ultraman
3 Speed on the handlbars
Stretch Armstrong
Banana Seats
KISS- (My parents wouldn't let me listen to their music, but did let me buy a poster that had to go in my closet and not be seen. I put it on the door and left the door open).
Six Million Dollar Man/Bionic Woman

Don't forget:

Sigmund and the Seamonsters
Head bands and wrist bands playing sports
Bugaloos
Batman (technically a 60s show, but played alot in the 70s)
Penelope Pitstop
Wacky Races
Collectables from the year 1976 (Bi-centennial of the country- I have a lionel train engine with this)

Ah, the memories. Keep em coming.

[Califan007]

As for a "guilty pleasure.

Hey. Xylophone solo. :D
"Moonlight Feels Right" was one of the most underrated songs from that entire decade :yes:

---------- Post added August-11th-2011 at 06:57 AM ----------


Apparently I watched too much TV in the 70s, probably all those Saturday morning cartoons:

Remember this one?

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[Park City Skins]

"Moonlight Feels Right" was one of the most underrated songs from that entire decade :yes:

No argument here. For whatever reason,that song,along with a few others give me vivid flashbacks of when I lived back in Fairfax during the mid 70's. I can almost smell the smells and feel the humidity of a Summer night back there when listening that song.

I remember listening to WPGC at night while in bed listening to this one.

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Another not so guilty pleasure,(too old to feel guilt over some of the music I like ;) ).

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[China]

Remember this one?

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:ols:

Yes, yes I do. :ols:

How about these:

It's not nice to fool Mother Nature:
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Ancient Chinese secret:
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[Califan007]

No argument here. For whatever reason,that song,along with a few others give me vivid flashbacks of when I lived back in Fairfax during the mid 70's. I can almost smell the smells and feel the humidity of a Summer night back there when listening that song.

Yep :yes:...Moonlight Feels Right instantly transports me back to Reston and riding my bike along the paths to Lake Ann Center lol...

The other songs that do that for me are:

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---------- Post added August-11th-2011 at 07:35 AM ----------


:ols:

Yes, yes I do. :ols:

How about these:

It's not nice to fool Mother Nature:

Ancient Chinese secret:

BWAHAHAHA :ols:...Good lord, do I ever lol...

---------- Post added August-11th-2011 at 07:39 AM ----------

70s classic tv show opening :thumbsup:

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Of course, watching it now reminds me a little too much of this :ols:..

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[Park City Skins]

Now we're talkin'. :)

Starski? :doh:

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[China]

Oh, are we doing 70's cop shows now?

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time:

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The exalted bald one with the lollipop:

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[Park City Skins]

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Non cop show.

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[China]

Kiss my grits!
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[Goskinz0721]

Yeah, but did you have a pair of these???


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[Busch1724]

Well Aerosmith was on drugs, Van Halen blew up the rock music scene again, and of course Bob Seger.

[mcsluggo]

http://dollreference.com/images/kenner_six_mill_man.jpg

you could look through his bionic eye....
you could roll back teh skin on his bionic arm....
he had bionic grip action...

but he still broke into 100 pieces when you simulated the rocket crash off of your roof onto the driveway :(

[MassSkinsFan]

You guys have hit most of the real highlights so it's hard to come up with more, but I'll try.

Dashikis

http://www.thaimokit.com/photo/MODE/Shirt/African-Dashiki-APD23_bbm.jpg

All in the Family
The Equal Rights Amendment
Crazy hair - long and greasy, afros, mustaches, all of it was good

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wFb5lHNGL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

The Village People (I was too young to get it, but I liked the music)
Early Saturday Night Live (when Belushi was alive and Chevy Chase was funny)
Steve Martin (King Tut)
Taxi
Andy Kaufman going off the deep end
Rock, disco, punk and New Wave clashing in quick succession
The Bicentennial and all the crap it spawned (I remember colleting red white and blue state soda cans)

http://c520391.r91.cf2.rackcdn.com/477252bfa0f4d64537eae9.jpg

The massive fail of the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin
1973 oil crisis - rationing, waiting in huge lines, playing with my Hot Wheels in the back seat for hours
Hot Wheels

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080312162923/hotwheels/images/thumb/3/3b/Redbaron.jpg/284px-Redbaron.jpghttp://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080312162922/hotwheels/images/thumb/3/34/Paddywagon.jpg/284px-Paddywagon.jpghttp://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080314160739/hotwheels/images/thumb/e/e5/Mongoose2.jpg/284px-Mongoose2.jpg

Introduction of the first Honda Civic in the US - my teacher had one and it was a freaky thing to see, especially with the strange engine mount

http://static.cargurus.com/images/site/2008/06/27/18/04/1973_honda_civic_hatchback-pic-24154.jpeg

Jean jackets
Smash-up Derby (?) - the two cars and ramps with zip-pulls and doors/hoods that popped off when hit hard
Trading and flipping baseball cards
Creepy Crawlers

http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/cccom.JPG

Wacky Packages - I couldn't wait to see the new ones every year

http://www.wackypackages.org/stickers/1st_series/whitebacks/crust_white_front_small_smaller_images.jpg

Day-glo and strange baseball uniforms (and hi-rise stirrup baseball socks and pill-box hats)

http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/001/004/598/orioles_display_image.jpg?http://www.mopupduty.com/whitesox1976a.jpghttp://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/000/814/952/indians_display_image.jpg?1301269809http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/000/814/987/pirates_display_image.jpg?1301270914

[DM72]

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[pjfootballer]

I had a Six Million Dollar man action figure. Lost half the pieces within a week.

[nonniey]

Anyone mention Flip Wilson? Young Frankenstein? Blazing Saddles?

[ouvan59]

Slurpee cups with baseball players on them.

I still have a ton of them. My brother and I along with a few friends invented a baseball game where we would line up cups in different positions during the games. My favorite player growing up was Vada Pinson and I always kept him on the bottom of the stack when carrying them around. Unfortunately one day I dropped the stack and Vada cracked. I was devestated.

They also had them with football players as well. I have about 30 of those. In fact I thought about them the other day when Bubba Smith died. Trying to remember the Skins I had and I can only remember Sonny, Jerry Smith, Chris Hanburger and Charlie Taylor.

[China]

I still have a ton of them. My brother and I along with a few friends invented a baseball game where we would line up cups in different positions during the games.


Back in the 70s my friend had a collection of those mini football helmets you'd get out of gumball machines. We'd play a football game with the helmets as players.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__iHzedtY3VA/S3ssJVfs4YI/AAAAAAAABwc/nGOdCcyPpRA/s320/Mini+Football+Gumball+Helmets.JPG

[SKINS@THEGOALLINE]

I heard Willard "Mitt" Romney was heckled today . . . Willard
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/SKINS7/WILLARD.jpg

[China]

A few horror movies from that era:

http://www.mamapop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Its-Alive.jpg

http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/192823.1020.A.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PL5dC8CTtoI/SPfMdRS5iuI/AAAAAAAAALo/R9Uc012clZo/s320/TheExorcistMoviePoster-1.jpg

http://www.365horrormovie.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/the-omen-horror-movie-poster.jpg

[Califan007]

http://zombieammo.com/zombiepress/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/the_omega_manpost.jpg



http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-rQMHiwRmGk/R1Gh8TArTRI/AAAAAAAAAhw/g1mNWRMfbPg/s1600-R/streak.gif

[mcsluggo]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Debbiedoesdallas.jpg

[DieselPwr44]

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[China]

http://www-deadline-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Wonder-Woman.jpg

[Destructis]

China, those things would poke your eyes out. At the very least, it would put a hole in my tongue.

[Park City Skins]

Ah yes. Lynda Carter. :D

There was also this issue of SI with that pic inside. . :whew:

http://media.cnbc.com/i/CNBC/Sections/CNBC_TV/CNBC_US/Shows/_Documentaries_Specials/Business_Model/Slideshow/Images/SS_sports_illustrated_tiegs.jpg

No. Can't show that one here,but not hard to find.

Another "guilty" pleasure song from the decade.


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Another fun thing in the 70's in that video. Soul Train.

No guilt about this one. Had the 45 and everything.

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[Tarpon75]

Chevy Van was the Eagles, and Brandy was The Association (I think)

~Bang

Chevy Van was Sammy Johns and Brandy was by Looking Glass.I know that someone else will have corrected those by the time I get to end of thread.

[Park City Skins]

That one,like Amie by Pure Prairie League have often been confused with the Eagles by some over the years.