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Was the '70s the worst decade ever?
PennLive ^ | 6/23/15 | Julia Hatmaker

Posted on 12/12/2023 12:07:12 PM PST by DallasBiff

While looking at the photos of the flooding caused by Tropical Storm Agnes in 1972, it occurred to us that the 1970s were just awful.

Worst decade ever.

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To: DallasBiff

Except for a couple of things, the 70’s were great. I’d take them over the 20’s so far


21 posted on 12/12/2023 12:19:59 PM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: PGR88

Yep, 1940s were the worse
Fascism and the rise of the communist threat.


22 posted on 12/12/2023 12:21:43 PM PST by RedMonqey ("A republic, if you can keep it" Benjam Franklin.)
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To: DallasBiff

I kind of enjoyed the 70s; and the 80s were pretty good.


23 posted on 12/12/2023 12:21:51 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jeff Chandler

2020’s -when communists staged a coup and installed a dictator.


24 posted on 12/12/2023 12:22:16 PM PST by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: DallasBiff

Let’s all sing together! YOUUUUUUUUUU light up my liffffffffe! You give me hooooooope...to carrrrrrryyy onnnnnnnn...


25 posted on 12/12/2023 12:22:42 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: hinckley buzzard

Are you kidding me? The 70s were awesome! Best decade of my 6 decade life.


26 posted on 12/12/2023 12:22:57 PM PST by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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To: DallasBiff

70’s were awesome...best music, best women, best food.


27 posted on 12/12/2023 12:23:03 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: DallasBiff

If you were lucky to go to H.S. in the early mid 70’s you snuck in just under the wire when the teachers went full on Leftist indoctrinators.


28 posted on 12/12/2023 12:23:05 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: DallasBiff

i got married and had a child in the 70’s so pretty good for me.
Plus the music was outstanding, IMHO.


29 posted on 12/12/2023 12:23:27 PM PST by ronniesgal (The bidens are actually more white trashy than the Clintons, and that's sayin' something)
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To: archaicoldschool

naw, my kid learned to walk so she could disco dance.
God Bless Donna Summer.


30 posted on 12/12/2023 12:24:40 PM PST by ronniesgal (The bidens are actually more white trashy than the Clintons, and that's sayin' something)
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To: DallasBiff

Shoddy everything

Martin guitars made in the 70s are crap.


31 posted on 12/12/2023 12:24:46 PM PST by nikos1121
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To: DallasBiff
The author:

I lived the '70s. I don't find her opinion persuasive.

32 posted on 12/12/2023 12:25:56 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: hinckley buzzard

I’ll second that motion.


33 posted on 12/12/2023 12:26:03 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (The Democrat breadlines will be gluten-free. )
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To: cotton1706
Let’s all sing together! YOUUUUUUUUUU light up my liffffffffe! You give me hooooooope...to carrrrrrryyy onnnnnnnn...

Well, we laid a strip for the Jersey shore Prepared to cross the line I could see the bridge was lined with bears But I didn't have a doggoned dime I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck "We just ain't a-gonna pay no toll" So we crashed the gate doing ninety-eight I says "Let them truckers roll, 10-4"

34 posted on 12/12/2023 12:26:22 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: DallasBiff
Actually, the 70's were the last great decade. And even if you hated disco, without disco, there could not have been Disco Demolition Night, which the single greatest promotion at a baseball game ever.

The movies were the best, from The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, Jaws, Outlaw Josey Wales, Chinatown, Blazing Saddles and list could go on and on.

Music? Just the year 1973 was among the best ever- Dark Side of the Moon, Houses of the Holy, Quadrophenia, Raw Power. And many more exceptional albums came out that year.

Most of the cars sucked in the 70's but we still had Chevelles, Camaros, Mustangs, and the Barracuda.

No internet, so we played outside, and read real books. The government didn't spy on U S citizens. The sports heroes were real tough guys-Nolan Ryan, Vida Blue, Thurman Munson, Roger Staubach, Mean Joe Greene, Ken Stabler and O.J. Simpson.

You could smoke on a plane, at school, and at the movie theatre.

A bag of marijuana was $10.00. Pinball arcades were all over. The Farrah Fawcett poster.

35 posted on 12/12/2023 12:27:08 PM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: NorthMountain

She’s an idiot...she should concentrate on finding a competent beautician.


36 posted on 12/12/2023 12:28:06 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: nikos1121
Martin guitars made in the 70s are crap.

Yea, 50's to 60's was the time to buy guitars.

37 posted on 12/12/2023 12:29:41 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: DallasBiff

The 70s were the bleakest years, in my life.


38 posted on 12/12/2023 12:30:24 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Magnum44

The ‘70s rocked!


39 posted on 12/12/2023 12:30:33 PM PST by stevio (Fight until you die.)
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To: dfwgator
Florida went 0-10-1.

Hey... that was my era.

Doug Dickey - up the middle, up the middle, up the middle, punt.

The only saving grace was that Chris Collinsworth was on the team (we graduated in the same class from the College of Business Administration).

-PJ

40 posted on 12/12/2023 12:31:18 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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