re: 70’s and 80’s kids, what is one thing you recall from back then…

Seemed like pretty much every tv show was a detective series back then: (Kojak, Rockford, Charlie’s Angels, Magnum PI, McCloud, Barnaby Jones, Matlock, Mannix, Columbo, Starsky & Hutch, Hart to Hart, McMillan and Wife, etc.); our station wagon had the hi-low beams switch on the floorboard - and the gear shift was on the steering column, also had manual roll down windows, fly-windows and bench seats front and back - and no a/c! I remember folding newspapers for my brother’s paper route (and getting covered with newsprint ink the process) then helping him deliver them by tossing them from the back of that old station wagon if it was raining out (how we didn’t die of carbon monoxide poison inhalation in the process is beyond me??).

Oh yes, mustn’t forget all those lovely 70s fashions, either: all us ladies wearing our hair feathered a la’ Farrah, striped toe socks with huarache sandals - or the dressier look of platform wedge sandals w/ a DVF wrap dress; guys wearing either the ubiquitous stretch terry cloth shirt with bell bottoms - or, like every fancy date I ever had, a faux silk polyester print button down shirt (a la‘ Travola in Saturday Night Fever) and maybe even a wide lapel polyester leisure suit to go with it. They always smelled of Old Spice or Brut cologne, too - unless they were trying to be a little classier - then it was Aramis, Polo or my personal favorite, Azarro Por Homme cologne (STILL love that one - in fact I recently picked some for my husband (no pics??).