Posted on 12/22/2022 2:50:39 AM PST by DallasBiff
It was a decade that spawned the Sex Pistols and the Vietnam War, platform shoes and Saturday Night Fever.
The Seventies also gave us The Godfather and Space Hoppers but those glam rock years will forever live in the shadow of the Swinging Sixties.
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but then the terrorists in Europe were horrifying as well
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Yeah I remember them arms locked filling the wide German streets chanting and marching. But they were not as terrifying to me as the old grannies in the 2nd-3rd story windows taking my picture wherever I went - they all worked for the KGB or Stasi.
It was the 50s that spawned the Viet Nam war. US involvement began in 1954.
I was horrified, as you were — we apparently share that memory, living abroad at the time. (See my #96)
When I first saw the hippies in Vondelpark, Amsterdam, I was so shocked my eyes got big as saucers. This angry hippie came over and got right in my face imitating my big eyes and making fun of me and being a major jerk. I was just a 12-year-old girl at the time (1970 or 1971). Which horrified me even more. The hippies were all drugged out, many passed out, very sad scene.
I,too, was worried about returning home to hippies and yippies, but so happy to be back in my homeland, too. Although the food turned out to be not as good as I remembered lol.
Hi Madam. Do you mean YMCA instead of WMCA?
Yes, I do. Thanks for catching it!
They probably snapped from gas rationing and having to wait in long lines to fill their cars while listening to the Bee Gees over and over again on the car radio.
Hahahahahaha...I do recall, drinking regular, fresh milk after years of drinking reconstituted milk seemed really odd.
But then, when I first went over and drank reconstituted milk, that tasted really strange and foreign to me.
I know. Strange, isn’t it?
But we saw the USA through the prism of the world-wide media, and like today, we know whose side they are on, and it isn’t ours!
Lol! And let’s not forget the 70s also gave us that cheesy duo, The Captain and Tenille. A Fifth of Beetoven, anyone? (cringe):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SAuqQr5YtjY
Ah, when the men were into ruffled shirts and stacked heels and lots of bling. :(
They had a sour cream stuffed crepe covered in raspberry compote several of which are still living on my waist line
80s. Ever hear the song, “Don’t stop believing?” It’s played at every sporting event, every game. Very popular right now. It’s all over the place. Even when I shop, ok not right now cuz they play Christmas music. But geez, it’s everywhere. Drives me insane.
Legionnaires disease, anyone?
You are just a bit younger than me.
I remember having a CD that returned somewhere around 20%. LOL!
I was in Switzerland, where the milkman delivered a “freshly squeezed” tin pail of milk every morning. My mother was crazy about it, but would not let us kids drink unpasteurized milk even in super clean Switzerland, so we got the pasteurized stuff from what passed for a supermarket.
I lived in Southeast Asia as an adult for awhile, land of no dairy products (and no refrigeration), so I can appreciate your milk experience. I got a little UHT milk from my military buddies a couple of times while there — better than powdered milk, but a long way from the real stuff. I really missed cheese there.
I got used to European style food, and being a kid, loved the sweets in Europe — which are not nearly so sugary as our sweets. To this day, American sweets are cloyingly over sweetened to me.
The Stones at their peak. Led Zeppelin at their peak. The Who at their peak. Eric Clapton at his peak. Pink Floyd at its peak. Neil Young at his peak. Elton John at his peak. CSNY. The beginning of Tom Petty. I could go on.
It’s sad and infuriating at the same time.
My wife, who went with my mother on a trip to Finland (Land of The Elves, my brother calls it) remarked on this the other night at a party-the woman she visited, who was a foreign exchange student in the Seventies with my family, gave her two kids “a candy” every night, and they could choose one out of a special drawer.
Only one.
And it was good chocolate, not like Hershey’s.
Different approach, for sure.
I love vintage stuff but not the clothing. They made things (tools, gadgets, cookware) really well before the 80s.
They left out the most important thing: my band, “Rampage.”
We opened for Steppenwolf, James Gang, Savoy Brown, recorded two limited release singles, were reviewed by Billboard, Cashbox, Record World very favorably, played a set at the Troubadour with the Who sitting in attendance, and were the Allman Bros. back stage guests at their Cincinnati Concert!
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