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[Fishead soup]

Baby Alligators being sold in the petshop.
The day Elvis Presley died
The Hillarious House of Freightenstien
Canadian teachers using Corporal Punishment.
Disco dancing
1978 Trip to England seeing punk rockers for the first time
My first cigarette 75 cents a pack.
A can of coke was 25 cents
Monsterously big ugly cars (Delta 88 Lincoln Continental.
Station wagons with immitation wood patterns.
John Travolta in Welcome Back Kotter.
The Land of the Lost SSSSLLLLEEEEESTACKS
Pepsi Commercials with themes of world unity.

[cbclark4]

I've seen that stuff in movies.

[RACETRAITOR]

Being a little over a month old when the '70s ended.

[Doogie]

OP, I'm thinkin' that a lot of the people on this forum were not even born in the 70's. Sadly, I am one of those people that is old enough to remember the 70's.
Here's some recollections:
1) ABBA was blaring from every radio on the planet (Peter Frampton, too).
2) Those friggin giant cassette tapes (8 tracks?).
3) For whatever reason, a lot of people drove Ford Pintos. That was before they realized that these cars could explode if you hit them in the back.
4) All those detective shows on TV: Columbo, McCloud, Hawaii-50 (book'em Danno), Kojak. Also, those dumb variety shows: Donny and Marie, Sonny and Cher, Captain and Tanille.

[mj roach]

Frank Zappa didn't show up mostly when the Mothers of Invention played.

[Tiger Beer]

Watching DUKES OF HAZZARD.
Clint Eastwood was KING.
Every other movie was about truck drivers and honkytonk bars.
Car chase scenes occurred in every show and movie.
Hee-Haw and Disney was on every Sunday night.
Robert Redford was in a lot of movies. Electric Cowboy.
Heather Locklear and Heather Thomas.
Pinup posters.
Evil Knievel.
Long-ass collars on button-up shirts.
The Incredible Hulk was Lou Ferigno (sp?).
Happy Days & Laverne and Shirley
8-track recorders were the big rage.

[Are they the lemmings]

I have worked very hard to ensure I all memories of the 70s are suppressed. The short shorts; the long, lanky hair; the flared, A-frame trousers with pockets in the knees; the social and economic conservatism; the disco dancing... I've buried all of that way back in the deepest crannies of my psyche and I intend to keep it that way.

[CentralCali]

The Partridge Family.

[VanIslander]

1. Diana Ross & Motown
2. Datsun cars (my first one i bought years later was a sporty '78 model)
3. The Carol Burnett Show (gawd she was funny!)
4. Pink Panther dolls
5. The Vancouver Whitecaps, North American Soccer league champions with young Bobby Lenarduzzi
6. early model portable radios (i carried around one of the first pocket sized ones in town, and many batteries died while i slept with it on my pillow)
7. Glass bottle coke machines
8. Huge shirt collars and colorful shirts
9. Alfred Hitchcock Digest small magazines
10. The original showing of Star Wars (saw it three times opening weekend!)

Also, on t.v., B&W movies on weekend afternoons and silent cartoons on saturday mornings, Mary Tyler Moore, Fantasy Island, Hawaii-5-0 "Book 'em Dan-o!"

[Butterfly]

[dogshed]

I remember many of the things already mentioned.

I also remember going to the celebration at the river in Tulsa for
the bicentennial celebration. 1776-1976

There was a train that traveled across the country full of historical
stuff. It had moving walkways and was pulled by a steam engine.

I remember Emergency, The Six Million Dollar Man, and The Bionic Woman.

I never became a bionic man, but I did become an EMT and a firefighter.
At the time I had no idea how Emergency helped to change prehospital
care in the US by spreading the word. The book I read in college I discovered online without the pictures:

http://info.jems.com/paramedics/index2.html

I just heard they have a Bionic Woman remake.

[sojourner1]

Watching Taxi, Happy Days, Land of the Lost, and M.A.S.H. I remember when I was 5 years old how I stole $1 off my dads bedroom dresser and walked by myself to the pet store to buy a goldfish. Needless to say, when I returned home with my goldfish, I was met by his Masonic belt buckle putting very sore black and blue bruises on my butt and around my waist. I didn't steel again after that big steel buckle learned me a new reality!

A lawnmower gas can was sitting by the backyard pool when I was 4 years old and one day I thought I needed to add the rest of the water to the pool! I then wondered why it was yellow and smelly compared to the clear water and then the, Oh Shiit factor kicked in. I got whipped hard by my daddy for this one, even harder than for stealing. He was pissed.

When I was in kindergarten, I got on the school bus with only my underwear on and wondered why the bus rolled 2 feet, stopped, and everyone was looking at me strange. The driver took me back inside my house and my mother was embarrassed! How this happened, I dunno. I must had been on my own as I was a very independent kid who had a lot of freedom. Another time before kindergarten, my mom was doing a tupper ware party and I pulled out my thing and pissed in the floor in front of all these women.

I used to always run around town on foot by myself since I was 3 or 4 years old and have many memories of exploring the woods, catching bugs, talking with friendly old people in their gardens, and getting dirty. The police one day lured me by making a new friend with me and showing me their cool looking guns and equipment. They said I had to come over to the car if I wanted to take a look and I fell for it. They then grabbed me and I kicked, screamed, and cried all the way home. I got picked up by the police allot before kindergarten, but got away many times after the first abduction experience. LOL.

[chris_J2]

Suzi Quatro, a decade before Joan Jett copied the same format
KC & the Sunshine Band (Give it up)
John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever
John Travolta in Grease
Attending a Fleetwood Mac concert (they were great live, too).
Watching 'Lost in Space', (oh, the pain), 'Gilligans Island', MASH, reruns. & Land of the Giants, Wonder Years
The Teneriffe aircrash disaster in 1977 (2 jets collided, killing 583)
Cyclone Tracy hitting Darwin on Christmas Eve, 1974
The Australia Day 1974 floods in Brisbane
The Fall of Saigon in April 1975
Watergate
Stairway to Heaven (Led Zep)
Colour TV (1975/76)
'Dark Side of the Moon' & 'Wish you were here' vinyl LP's (Pink Floydd)
And these lines from Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder:

"Teachers, keep on teachin''
Preachers, keep on preachin''
World, keep on turnin''
'Cause it won't be too long"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/70's

[peppermint]

I was barely 3 at the end of the 70s, so not a whole lot. Dim memories of the Pepsi commercial mentioned upthread, ugly clothes, and my mothers set of yellow leather luggage that got lost in a move. I've seen similar bags selling in vintage shops for a small fortune since.

[Pligganease]

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