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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: FamiliarFace

๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿค—๐Ÿ˜†


61 posted on 12/22/2022 4:28:06 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Tupelo

True.


62 posted on 12/22/2022 4:28:52 AM PST by Lumper20 (Through all invaders out of OUR USA.)
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To: FamiliarFace

“There was some horrible music, and there was also GREAT music.”

I loved the ‘70s music. The ‘80s... pffft!


63 posted on 12/22/2022 4:29:49 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: MayflowerMadam

It makes me sick to my stomach to hear Journey played at every sporting event, and dang it, even in the grocery store when I shop. Ugh. Where are my earplugs? Why should I have to bring them with me everywhere I go? I canโ€™t get away from it.


64 posted on 12/22/2022 4:32:57 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

I remember the 70s. Watergate, Jimmuh Cahtah, stagflation, hideous fashions. Gas lines, turn down your thermostat and wear a sweater like Jimmuh. The SLA and Patty Hearst. Airline hijackings. Terrorist attacks (Palestians, IRA, Weather Underground, Black September, list goes on.).

Avocado Green, Harvest Gold and Coppertone appliances. The androgynous look for women made a comeback after 50 years (first appeared in the Roaring Twenties as our military returned home from WWI on troop ships ... hmm), and they keep on keeping on bringing it back. Young girls who had dreamed of pretty prom dresses and beautiful wedding gowns like their mothers wore got “granny gowns” instead (which looked rather like the flannel nightgowns they wore as children).

The abominable disco music. Leisure suits! Disco ushered in an Age of Narcissism, men watching themselves dance in the mirrored disco halls, women, too. The Sexual Revolution came into its own. You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby (if you ask me, a long way from sanity).

The dumbing down of our schools “graduated” to the dumbing down of our colleges.

We briefly became more optimistic and patriotic during the Bicentennial, but then the country turned dismal during the Carter years. As their parting gifts, Jimmuh and Zbig gave us the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Mullahs in Iran. We finally came to our senses and elected Reagan in 1980. But so much damage had already been done ...

Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll never went away. It metastasized into Weird Sex, More Drugs and Rap. And here we are :(


65 posted on 12/22/2022 4:34:20 AM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: abb

You know that “Angel” just died — a week or so ago, I think...?


66 posted on 12/22/2022 4:35:00 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: MayflowerMadam
โ€œBell bottom slacks.โ€

Does anybody remember 'elephant" jeans?


67 posted on 12/22/2022 4:36:04 AM PST by DallasBiff (Kamala is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: CatHerd

Good synopsis!


68 posted on 12/22/2022 4:36:11 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

Look just like elephant legs!


69 posted on 12/22/2022 4:38:31 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
Yes! I also remember elephant leg pants:


70 posted on 12/22/2022 4:40:37 AM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: DallasBiff

I remember them, wore them & I’ve seen people wearing them recently


71 posted on 12/22/2022 4:41:09 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: FamiliarFace

“It makes me sick to my stomach to hear Journey...”

I admit that I know nothing about Journey. Have heard of the group, but I guess the music never impressed me — if I ever even heard it. Seventies or eighties?


72 posted on 12/22/2022 4:41:16 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: DallasBiff

Those are terrible!!


73 posted on 12/22/2022 4:42:24 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: KarlInOhio
โ€œ Big name bands with $4 to $6 tickets.โ€

and there were generally two opening bands.

74 posted on 12/22/2022 4:42:46 AM PST by circlecity
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To: MayflowerMadam

And they got even more ridiculous! See my #70. The 70s went over the top in nearly everything.


75 posted on 12/22/2022 4:44:16 AM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: DallasBiff

1970’s NFL was peak NFL.


76 posted on 12/22/2022 4:46:14 AM PST by oldskoolwargamer2
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To: Jack023
Summer 1977.

David Berkowitz, NYC blackout

77 posted on 12/22/2022 4:47:41 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: DallasBiff

Tube tops and women who were built to wear them, not like today where too many women lurch around showing their obesity skin.


78 posted on 12/22/2022 4:52:31 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: nuconvert
I remember them, wore them & Iโ€™ve seen people wearing them recently

You are a true girl of the 70's.

79 posted on 12/22/2022 4:52:35 AM PST by DallasBiff (Kamala is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: FamiliarFace

Got my license in 79 and bought a 74 Camaro Type LT....VH blasting, big feathered roach clip hanging on the mirror and lots of speeding tickets....I’ve grown up since but it was fun fun....


80 posted on 12/22/2022 4:56:55 AM PST by 1217Chic
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