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Post by ck100 on May 10, 2019 2:20:07 GMT
Drugs and disco.
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Post by Catman on May 10, 2019 2:33:56 GMT
They were the best of times. They were the worst of times.
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Post by Captain Spencer on May 10, 2019 2:35:29 GMT
Well I was a kid in the 70s, and back then our parents always encouraged us to spend as much time as possible playing outside with friends. That meant doing various activities like taking long bike rides for a couple of hours without giving it a second thought, going to a park or school yard to play baseball, playing innocent games like hide-and-seek. No cell phones or video games (well, unless you were into Pong). It was freedom, baby!
Unlike today where parents practically keep their kids on a leash.
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Post by ck100 on May 10, 2019 2:56:14 GMT
Did you do drugs and listen to disco? I wasn't even alive back then.  I just know this from news programs, movies, documentaries, etc.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on May 10, 2019 3:33:57 GMT
I wasn't alive in the 70s. What was it like? Hairier
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Post by Schwarzwald Magnus on May 10, 2019 4:31:32 GMT
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Post by mszanadu on May 10, 2019 4:37:57 GMT
I wasn't alive in the 70s. What was it like?
All of this IMPO of course and from my own brief
yet general life experience with this particular decade too  .
It was a quality time ( meaning ? ) of serious bonding with family and friends also most things we used in our daily lives was made top quality just the same as well
( some examples - automobiles , clothes , land line telephones , homes , furniture , TV's , household appliances , & etc. )  .
There wasn't any high end ( or complicated )
digital type electronic devices
to interfere in our daily lives or take away from
our time between each other .
We always had an imagination for planning
even the most basic events or gatherings
and creating unique yet fun activities to do as well .
Of course like every other decade it had it's good and bad moments also ( we made due with what we did have and was grateful for it too ) .
I hope this helped to explain in these most general terms of this particular decade ?
Thanks so much THE DREAM for your interest with this and for this fine subject post also  .
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Post by theauxphou on May 10, 2019 8:07:32 GMT
Quieter.
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Post by mslo79 on May 10, 2019 8:38:34 GMT
I was barely alive in the 1970's, so obviously I can't really say much there as about as far as I go back would be the 1980's and that's pushing it since I was a kid and you don't really pay attention to stuff as a kid like you do when you get a bit older like teens and older which pretty much means I can remember the 1990's on forward pretty well since I was anywhere from 10-20 years old at any point in the 1990's. but I do think I can pretty much claim being around back when technology was not dominate like it is now, which you might as well say the 1990's was the last decade prior modern tech being everywhere as while internet/cell phones etc where around in the 1990's it was not much of it for the average person as cell phones and general computers only started to get a bit more mainstream around 1998-2000 (I had a computer/internet since 1995 pretty much). we never had high speed internet in my area til the year 2000 which I imagine gives you a general indication of when the internet really started to dominate and even cell phones would be of similar time frame. but anyways, since I was a kid in the 1980's and a bit into the 1990's I was still more of the old days in the sense kids played outside etc unlike many kids of today and over the last 20 years or so who are addicted to modern technology and I suspect as a whole are much less active outside than kids generally used to be back around my day and before. but hell, I got to be honest... I am pretty much addicted to computers (and the like) on some level. but I do think, on some level, times were better prior to the smart phone era (call it roughly the last 10 years or so) where everyone is addicted to them and there is less people communication etc as while general computers/cell phones where around prior to that point, I think once smart phones came along, especially after they started to get common, is when technology addiction really set in for many as prior to smart phones you could not have internet access all of the time everywhere which forced people to take a break from them etc. just some thoughts |
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Post by Prime etc. on May 10, 2019 8:58:59 GMT
Let's see drive-ins, pop shoppes candy overload Exorcist Earthquake and towering infernos Jaws and shark mania Fat Albert
space shuttle Enterprise Colecovision pong comic books galore Aurora and Mego bionic men Big Jim Jimmy "Dynamite!" Walker
planets of the apes lands of the lost everywhere you look its Bradford Dillman and Doug McClure Quincy ME Match Game Halloween without parental supervision 6 channel tv universe religious shows the only thing to watch on sunday afternoons ABC Sunday Night Movies Lynda Carter Jane Seymour prime time stop motion didn't seem so fake Superfriends Spider-man and Hulk tv shows were an oasis in a desert of realism Morgan Freeman was hanging out with Spidey not Batman
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Post by klandersen on May 10, 2019 12:45:55 GMT
Disco fortunately was only the later part of the decade. The early 70s to about mid 70s were more folk rock and real instruments rock.
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Post by Stammerhead on May 10, 2019 12:55:23 GMT
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Post by politicidal on May 10, 2019 12:58:20 GMT
Can’t remember. I’m sure it’s nothing.
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Post by klandersen on May 10, 2019 13:05:16 GMT
Ever see "That 70s Show"? It was a fairly good representation of the era (except for the 1990s versions of products that were around during that time). As someone else said we didn't have all the digital computerized electronics taking up every second of our lives as we do now. Computers wouldn't hit the home market until the later part of the decade, and most people wouldn't start getting home PCs until the early 1980s. Everything was "electronic" not "computerized". Video games were still something fairly new and the graphics very clumsy and crude by today's standards. Movie special effects still looked kind of cheesy until 1977 When Star Wars was released. The Cold War was still VERY REAL, not as stiff and gloomy as it was during the 1950s and '60s (I was born mid 1960s), but the fear of nuclear attack from Russia (Soviet Union or whatever it was calling itself back in the 1970s) was still very much alive. UFO sightings and conspiracy theories were picking up steam. "New Age" spiritualism was beginning to be a thing. NASA and the Apollo missions were still a pretty big deal. The late 1960s "Hippy Movement" was still in effect. Long hair was trendy for boys and young men. The horrors of Vietnam were ending.
Here in the US the only thing people knew about the middle-east was that Israel and Palestine were still in there thousands of years warring and for some reason were purchased most of our oil from the middle-east even though we had some local at home sources.
I'm sure there are plenty more things I could go on about.
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Post by Prime etc. on May 10, 2019 13:14:50 GMT
Let's see drive-ins, pop shoppes candy overload Exorcist Earthquake and towering infernos Jaws and shark mania Fat Albert
space shuttle Enterprise Colecovision pong comic books galore Aurora and Mego bionic men Big Jim Jimmy "Dynamite!" Walker
planets of the apes lands of the lost everywhere you look its Bradford Dillman and Doug McClure Quincy ME Match Game Halloween without parental supervision 6 channel tv universe religious shows the only thing to watch on sunday afternoons ABC Sunday Night Movies Lynda Carter Jane Seymour prime time stop motion didn't seem so fake Superfriends Spider-man and Hulk tv shows were an oasis in a desert of realism Morgan Freeman was hanging out with Spidey not Batman
Flared jeans Platform shoes Polyester made a fashion statement
Ruffled shirts Shaggy hair Bushy sideburns Lovely ladies Annie Hall delighted
Carrie unleased her powers Al Pacino was no dog Shelly Duvall's pigs in a blanket
Amber, brown and yellow ruled
Sensurround Blaxploitation CHiPs Little House On The Prairie Lynda Carter Dawn Of The Dead Mac vs Ratched John Travolta Disco Dancing Grease was electrifying Rocky flew high
Bohemian Rhapsody did the fandango
Sharkmania Muppets
Death Stars The force was with us Also, the only Phil we knew wasn't a doctor but a Donahue and the only Hartman was David or Mary
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Post by pippinmaniac on May 10, 2019 23:58:23 GMT
Great music, terrible hair and clothes. Watergate, Vietnam, and the energy crisis. Everything was earth toned-avocado green and harvest gold appliances, for example. Cutbacks in school programs, especially girls' sports. People still smoked cigarettes everywhere. Rising costs of living meant that both parents had to get a job outside the home.
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Post by Doghouse6 on May 11, 2019 1:11:57 GMT
Even better than you've heard they were.
Sure, lotsa horrible crap goin' on, but every decade has had that, and the counteracting avenues of escape therefrom were abundant in ways never experienced before or since. Who knew then that the party would end?
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Post by The Herald Erjen on May 11, 2019 1:48:53 GMT
What were the 70's like? They were far out and funky. EDIT -- I just gave my age away again, didn't I? |
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Post by Ass_E9 on May 11, 2019 2:01:23 GMT
Revolutionary.
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Post by louise on May 12, 2019 16:07:00 GMT
Cinemas had continuous performances, you could go in any time during the show and stay as long as you liked. People would quite frequently wander in halfway through a film, then stay until they reached the same point in the next showing, or you could stay and watch the whole thing again if you wanted to. It seems an odd way to watch a film now, but in those days we took it for granted. I can remember seeing What's Up Doc?, starting from about half an hour before the end, then watching it again from the beginning. And if the film wasn't too long, there was very often a second film as part of the programme, or there would be a short of some kind - a travelogue or something. There were ice cream sellers who came in in the interval. Only 3 tv channels here in the UK, and no means of recording programmes, so if you missed the one you wanted to see, that was your hard luck, unless there was a repeat later on. No computers, internet of course, so people still read newspapers and magazines a lot, and there were tons of comics for children. there were plenty of jobs, people didn't worry much about getting a job when they left school, and there were lots of jobs for people with few or even no educational qualifications. Unions were still fairly powerful so there were none of these zero hour contracts or anything like that. Very few people went to university compared to the numbers who go now. Platform shoes were in (I never cared much for those) and long hair for men. I wasn't a huge fan of 70s music, I was still stuck in a 60s time warp (I still am). I did like Abba though. Shops were all closed on Sundays except for newsagents which were allowed to open in the mornings for the Sunday papers. There was less variety of foods than there is now. Pizzaland opened in 1970 I think, I had never had a pizza before. Wimpy bars were where you went for hamburgers, I think Macdonalds started here in about 1977. Fruitr juce wasn't in, I don't remember seeing it anywhere much. people mostly drank squash, or things like coke. Bottled water hadn't really caught on here either. There were still a lot of people smoking - one of our teachers at school even smoked in the classroom. Young people were fairly laid back about sex - most girls went on the pill, and there was no AIDS here yet, so people didn't worry a great deal about diseases etc.
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