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chris_J2 · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Location: From Brisbane, Au.

Muhammad Ali

and Farah Fawcett

Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

I hardly watched any TV during the 70s...

From 1970 till November of '73 (when I joined the Hare Krishnas) I either lived in a "backyard tent settlement" in Coconut Grove (Miami) or managed and stayed in a near-by prominent hippie boarding house ("the Bird House"...)

I vaguely remember when one of the stalwart residents of the tent settlement, "Backyard Dave", inspired by John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band album, got totally into "Primal Scream" therapy and tried to treat himself while tripping on acid.

At one point he frantically tried calling the author of the book, Arthur Janov, to personally guide him as he recalled overhearing (as a toddler) his father blurt out to his mother "I wish he was never born!"

"Backyard Dave" was very upset that he couldn't evoke the perfect primal scream that would free him of all his pent-up pain , but the giant banyon trees reverberated - and some mangos and avacados fell - from the vibrations of screams that he did get out that day ...

Here's a website about John Lennon's experience with Primal Therapy that I stumbled across which reminded me of that 70's moment:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/carousel/pob11.html

I'm personally glad that I was more influenced by George Harrison than post-Yoko Lennon ...

bejarano-korea · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

I was 7 at the end of the 70s but I'll try.

The Sweeney
Theres a humphrey about - milk advert
Texan bars
Arsenal 3 Manchester United 2
Grease was the word!
Diff'rent Strokes - whachaya talking about Willis
Monkey magic!
chopper bikes and homemade go karts.
Muhammad Ali.
moon boots to wear to school whe it was snowing
my big afro - it was about 3 feet tall.

twg · Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Location: Getting some fresh air...

Born in April 1970

I really liked the Star Trek reruns on the CBC on Saturday afternoons.

My parents had eight-track players, including one in the car. My favorite was Bony M's Night Flight To Venus.

My favorite cartoons were Hong Kong Fooey, The Herculoids, and the original Scooby Doo.

My parents gave me a disco suit to wear. I hated it and swore to never dance in my entire life.

My uncle lived with us. He would play Black Sabbath loudly and it would scare me and my sister.

Hopelessly Human · Joined: 03 Oct 2006

In baseball, pitchers pitched complete games on a regular basis. There was no such thing as a set-up man, or even a closer, until Goose Gossage came along (which was in the 70's, but still I don't think it really caught on until later).

And when they did make a pitching change it wasn't sponsored by AT&T ("This call to the bullpen is sponsored by AT&T"). I swear that's why there are so many pitching changes in baseball today.

The stadiums were named after people, places or team names, not corporations.

I remember that, and ABC after school specials.

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

Strange. My foremost memory is of baseball. I was seven or eight years old in 1977. I remember Reggie Jackson hitting those 3 homers.

A freind of mine met Reggie in Japan in the 90s. Reggie was only making a few million a year there. Reggie apoligized for stealing a guitar when he was young and broke.

I also remember my first day of kindergarten, my very first memory. I cried.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I remember...

Getting married in '70

Being glued to the TV for a year and a half during Watergate
I was getting a haircut when the announcement was made about the Saturday Night Massacre--my friends and I thought there might be a coup

Being hired to teach high school the day R Nixon resigned

Starting my very first teaching job...in my very first class on my very first day Denise E told me I couldn't have cigs in my shirt pocket while teaching

Getting divorced

Watching Roots (the first mini-series, if I'm not mistaken)

SHANE02 · Joined: 04 Jun 2003

hugo_danner · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Location: korea

50 cent gas, the Vega (my first car), lots of crap left over from the 1960's, the worst drug you saw was pot, The Brady Bunch, the plastic music form known as disco (and all the crap that went with it), Saturday Night Fever, the Bee Gees, the Eagles, Kent State, Watergate............

The 1970's was a pretty good decade to grow up in. Not the crap of the 1960's, and it avoided all the drug and AIDS crap of the 1980s.

Fishead soup · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Location: Korea

Music from the late seventies was actually much better than the eighties.

The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Stranglers.

Not to mention the great two tone stuff. The Specials, Madness, The Selector.

lowpo · Joined: 01 Mar 2007

contrarian · Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Location: Nearly in NK

I got married in 1970 and we had four kids by 1976. Learned to fly made lots of money. The the first Alberta oil boom ended a year or so later.

It was one heck of a ride.

Got into folk music. Cool

endo · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Location: Seoul...my home

I was chilling in my mom womb in the late 1970s.

Never got to see that decade.

The Hammer · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:32 pm Post subject:

Our family subscribed to HBO in 1977. It blew my mind that we could watch movies at home on TV. I was tripping off of that.

Michael Jackson was still black.

444 Days
*edit* *edit* took over the US embassy in Tehran, Iran and held our people hostage.

Mikey Likes it!

1975 Pop Rocks Introduced to the public.

1978 Battlestar Gallactica

1979 Dallas

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Butterfly · Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Location: Kuwait