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re: Groovy Things Young People Who Lived in the '70s Might Remember
Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:55 pm to AUstar
Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:55 pm to AUstar
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17) Notice how lean everyone is in the photos. Not a fat person in sight.
I always find that odd because that was back in the era of "clean your plate". I assume that it caused us to be full on less calorically dense food and not wanting a bag of chips or a candy bar 5 minutes later.
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Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:57 pm to Obtuse1
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the era of "clean your plate".
but, also the era of running around outside from morning til night.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:57 pm to Purplehaze
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Then you had Disco and the worst part was this Disco Duck
I was living in Memphis when Rick Dees was an am radio dj and released disco duck. We would listen to that radio station on the school bus (middle school was 7 miles deep into the county, middle of nowhere, with a lot of stops). All of Memphis it seems got totally burned out on the song quickly.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:58 pm to Liberator
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Everybody in the '70s had just one phone in their house. It was a rotary phone that stayed in some central location, with a cord that could only be stretched so far. If someone was on that phone, you just had to sit and wait for them to finish.
Most of the families I knew had at least two phones; we had four although we only had one line. A lot of people with kids had two phone lines.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:59 pm to Liberator
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Clear TV reception in the '70s was unreliable at best. If the picture was distorted with zig-zag lines—or, worse, the dreaded "snow," where everything was fuzzy—the only way to fix the problem was to adjust, twist and turn the antenna, otherwise known as "rabbit ears."
And, of course the high tech aluminum foil wrapped around the rabbit ears modification provided superior reception.
Little brother was the remote control. "Hey short shite, get off the floor and change it to channel 4. Ok wait, stand right there and don't move" sometimes enhanced reception.
I remember all the rest, including Atari with Ping Pong.
Women's lib and sexual equality was a thing in that era as well.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 4:00 pm to Liberator
Chinese Jump Rope
Clackers
Footsie
Show N Tell
Clackers
Footsie
Show N Tell
Posted on 4/4/24 at 4:01 pm to Mr Breeze
"free love" carried over from the 60s as well.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 4:01 pm to Darth_Vader
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But on the other hand it means as I reach retirement age I’m having to watch society embrace delusion and depravity as it hurtles toward complete collapse
Our retirement will be spent watching the empire around us collapse.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 4:02 pm to Liberator
I hitchhiked one time - at the Marine Base at Quantico.
There was an 8th-9th grade dance (both grades were at the High School). My friend and I thumbed are way from QTown (civilian Quantico) to the school. A bunch of very cool brothers picked us up. They didn't take us all the way to the school - some Marine enlisted men dropping off a couple of Officer's kids at the school probably wasn't cool.
There was an 8th-9th grade dance (both grades were at the High School). My friend and I thumbed are way from QTown (civilian Quantico) to the school. A bunch of very cool brothers picked us up. They didn't take us all the way to the school - some Marine enlisted men dropping off a couple of Officer's kids at the school probably wasn't cool.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 4:03 pm to Obtuse1
quote:That and we just didn't have tons of stuff like that in the house, at least, at my house, we didn't. I don't remember seeing peoples carts full of junk at the grocery store like you do now.
I always find that odd because that was back in the era of "clean your plate". I assume that it caused us to be full on less calorically dense food and not wanting a bag of chips or a candy bar 5 minutes later.
And if I wanted a candy bar, I had to come up with the money for it myself, and walk to the store. And like any self-respecting kid back then, any money I scrounged up was going towards baseball cards and cigarettes (which I could buy anywhere by saying they were for my dad).
Posted on 4/4/24 at 4:04 pm to Liberator
Had Atari and Intelivision
Also remember kids getting paddled at school
Also remember kids getting paddled at school
Posted on 4/4/24 at 4:07 pm to northshorebamaman
We used to keep a single flip flop in the front basket of the 3 wheeler so we could kick start it since nobody ever had shoes on or even with them wherever we were that day. It was basically the community transportation for the kids 
We also never knew who's bicycle we were on. They were practically community property as well. We wore the paint off the posts on everyone's house leaning bikes on them.
We basically had one continuous baseball game that lasted all summer. Championship was the day before school started. We'd play all summer and pretty much whoever won the last inning of the summer was the champ until the next weekend.
We also never knew who's bicycle we were on. They were practically community property as well. We wore the paint off the posts on everyone's house leaning bikes on them.
We basically had one continuous baseball game that lasted all summer. Championship was the day before school started. We'd play all summer and pretty much whoever won the last inning of the summer was the champ until the next weekend.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 4:07 pm to Salamanca
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Also remember kids getting paddled at school
It was long after the 70s until that went away.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 4:10 pm to Tempratt
I haven't seen one of those in decades!
What the hell was going in with these things? Some kind of liquid would run down the strings? (I was a kid and didn't care about lamps and stuff like that).
What the hell was going in with these things? Some kind of liquid would run down the strings? (I was a kid and didn't care about lamps and stuff like that).
Posted on 4/4/24 at 4:12 pm to Liberator
Muscle cars and custom vans.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 4:12 pm to FreddieMac
Glad someone got the joke
Posted on 4/4/24 at 4:12 pm to Sidicous
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I was living in Memphis when Rick Dees was an am radio dj and released disco duck. We would listen to that radio station on the school bus (middle school was 7 miles deep into the county, middle of nowhere, with a lot of stops). All of Memphis it seems got totally burned out on the song quickly.
Ah.... the heyday of WMPS.
Ironically, he made the station number one here and they ultimately fired him over the song and some perceived "conflict of interest" or something.
He lived over on Eastern off of Poplar Pike in Germantown back then.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 4:14 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
quote:That changed in the 80's with BMX. I had a GT CR. Better not catch anyone touching my bike.
We also never knew who's bicycle we were on. They were practically community property as well. We wore the paint off the posts on everyone's house leaning bikes on them.
This post was edited on 4/4/24 at 4:17 pm
Posted on 4/4/24 at 4:14 pm to MorbidTheClown
Yep, we burned a lot more calories than kids today.
Not sure when that changed exactly but I was born in 75. Even when I graduated in 93 if you were a guy and didn’t have at least 4 pack abs then you were considered fat and it’d probably be best if you kept your shirt on around the girls.
Not sure when that changed exactly but I was born in 75. Even when I graduated in 93 if you were a guy and didn’t have at least 4 pack abs then you were considered fat and it’d probably be best if you kept your shirt on around the girls.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 4:20 pm to Obtuse1
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I always find that odd because that was back in the era of "clean your plate
My parents told us that. My mom said her dad was even more anal about it. He grew up during depression in deep south and went to bed hungry a lot as a kid. He always ensured his kids did not waste any food (despite making a lot of money himself. It was the principle of it for him).
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