re: Groovy Things Young People Who Lived in the '70s Might Remember

Pong was mesmerizing with its simplicity.

Video arcades were all the rage.

I remember my gym shorts from the mid 60's until I graduated in 70 were more like girls hot pants they wear now. Think the Boston Celtics and Larry Bird in those ridiculously short uniform pants.

Bell bottom pants were standard attire and if you had a pair of platform shoes and a banlon pullover shirt, you were styling and profiling.

If the house phone was being tied up, just run down to the corner store and drop a nickel in the phone to make a call.

Walking or taking the public service bus to school and back while still in early grade school by myself.


Actually getting off the sofa to change the channels or turn up the volume on the TV-----Oh, and 4 channels was the limit-----and they all went off at midnight.


Riding bicycles with no helmets, kneepads and often without shoes.

Roller skating using the old steel sidewalk skates held on your feet by cut up bicycle inner tubes to make big rubber bands.

Seems everybody smoked-------------everywhere----in the hospital, cars, restaurants, airplanes, busses but not in church.

I'm a 90's kid but I love the sunken living rooms with conversation pits. Did anyone have that in their homes?

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Riding bicycles with no helmets, kneepads and often without shoes.

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We would build ramps and jump over things on our bikes with no helmet and pads. But I personally had to have shoes, those metal pedals would bite into my feet.

Threads like this are the outcome of the OT getting old.




And I say that as a kid born in the 70s.

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Mom rarely bought Tang. But I remember this being in the fridge almost always.

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4) Being oblivious to "stranger danger"


Most neighborhoods were that safe because prying eyes dads, uncles, cousins, moms, aunts, non-related neighbors and local cops all closely monitored every neighborhood. Strange "Characters" knew the danger of being "flagged" lest their personal health and limbs be at risk for the mere appearance of seeming to "lurk around kids".

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This just isn't true. Danger was worse for children running around neighborhoods.

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You got the "oblivious" part right though. Ignorance was truly bliss

Then you had Disco and the worst part was this

Disco Duck

Oil lamps were the coolest

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I had more bloody stubbed toes in one summer than kids today have in a lifetime. We never wore shoes once school was out for the summer.