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70 best things about the 1970s - how many of these do you remember?
The Mirror ^ | 2/11/16 | Mirror.co.uk

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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To: DallasBiff
It was a decade that spawned the Sex Pistols and the Vietnam War, platform shoes and Saturday Night Fever.

Factual error in very first sentence!

FAIL!

Regards,

21 posted on 12/22/2022 3:37:39 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: DallasBiff

Levis made in USA - exactly the size I wanted.

Big Japanese motorcycles with chain drive, headers, velocity stacks running on leaded gas (and inexpensive rear tires)


22 posted on 12/22/2022 3:40:19 AM PST by KingLudd
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To: Celtic Conservative
They weren’t a great deal better in Michigan, IIRC

Watching local news and they make chicken little look calm.

23 posted on 12/22/2022 3:40:29 AM PST by DallasBiff (Kamala is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: DallasBiff

Oh, yeah, those were dangerous toys! I’m not surprised at all.


24 posted on 12/22/2022 3:43:54 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: CptnObvious

Most of the 60’s revolution happened in the 1970’s. It was sex, drugs and rock and roll


25 posted on 12/22/2022 3:43:59 AM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Jack023

Better yet, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers got their start in the 70s.


26 posted on 12/22/2022 3:44:29 AM PST by Rockingham
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To: DallasBiff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktld_uIharc&ab_channel=CathodeRay60

Who remembers this on Sunday afternoons from about 1972 to about 1975? Flyers, Rangers, and others and even Seals footage here.


27 posted on 12/22/2022 3:44:54 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: FamiliarFace; Fresh Wind

I had that same reaction. People make mistakes when writing, I know I do. But something like that, right out of the gate...it makes one not want to even read the rest of it.


28 posted on 12/22/2022 3:50:50 AM PST by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: DallasBiff

Yeah, unlike in the 70’s when the weathermen massively undersold storms and you genuinely didn’t know how bad it would be.

CC


29 posted on 12/22/2022 3:54:39 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: rlmorel

The amazing thing is that the errors happen so often that they are just glossed over, and we have come to accept them. Incompetence rules the day, it seems.


30 posted on 12/22/2022 3:55:09 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: DallasBiff; FamiliarFace
Even back then, when I was much less aware of the overly litigious nature our country was acquiring (in addition to what we already had!) I remember trying out a pair of those in full view of another pair that had already shattered (looking for all the world like a pair of tootsie pop heads on the end of strings after someone had crunched a large part of one of them between their molars!) and I thought: "Huh. They won't be in business long!"
31 posted on 12/22/2022 3:55:22 AM PST by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: DallasBiff

M*A*S*H

Streaking

A high school parking lot full of the best cars ever and would be considered a great collection today - everything from 1950s pickup trucks to Pontiac Trans Am


32 posted on 12/22/2022 3:56:56 AM PST by Jolla
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To: Rockingham

Yes!


33 posted on 12/22/2022 3:58:40 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: KingLudd

Funny-now that I think of it (and I could be wrong) wasn’t the Seventies when the nearly full transition on passenger cars away from bias-ply towards radial tires took place?

I remember being so hard up that I purchased re-treads, which were okay for a few thousand miles, but always seemed to give out early.

Now, I wonder-what happened to all those companies that had been making re-tread tires for decades?

I presume you cannot make re-treads out of radial tires, since, except for truck tires, I don’t think anyone uses bias-ply tires anymore. (for passenger vehicles, at least)


34 posted on 12/22/2022 3:59:59 AM PST by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: Rockingham

Just went to a restaurant with a bunch of local concert posters hanging on the walls as decorations. Big name bands with $4 to $6 tickets.


35 posted on 12/22/2022 4:00:14 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Soon the January 6 protesters will be held (without trial or bail) longer than Jefferson Davis was.)
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To: Celtic Conservative
Yeah, unlike in the 70’s when the weathermen massively undersold storms and you genuinely didn’t know how bad it would be.

In the 70's, they didn't have the technology, and also we did not have the over the top winter storm warnings.

Tornado warnings are another thing, and important.

36 posted on 12/22/2022 4:01:43 AM PST by DallasBiff (Kamala is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: Jolla

My BIL still has his Trans Am from his HS days. It’s his baby. Great shape.


37 posted on 12/22/2022 4:01:48 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Agnes in ‘72 springs to mind.


38 posted on 12/22/2022 4:03:56 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Viet Nam - Nov 1 1955 - Eisenhower deployed “training troops”


39 posted on 12/22/2022 4:05:25 AM PST by Jolla
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To: alexander_busek

They list the Bay City Rollers but not the Bee Gees. Right.


40 posted on 12/22/2022 4:05:27 AM PST by ClaytonForester
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