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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

Lousy cars after about 1971, great music (within certain genres), horrible fashion, Farrah Fawcett posters, high interest rates, real estate values spiking (especially where I lived in the South Bay Area), Day on the Green concerts, KOME 98.5 playing whatever the heck they wanted.

We still had a functioning roller rink nearby, so that was good for an occasional diversion, too. Except for the disco music they insisted on playing. We were there to skate, not dance.

Yes, I was in high school in the 70s. We even once had a school assembly where the cheer squad did a dance routine to “Roundabout” by Yes. What are the chances of that happening today?


61 posted on 12/12/2023 12:40:35 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: hinckley buzzard

We recovered from the Carter years. AND we managed to avoid the dreaded ice age that was going to kill us all.

I do not see us recovering from the disastrous O’Biden years. Not after every bureaucrat is an American hating marxist and the nation has been over run by an invited invasion of violent America hating illegal aliens


62 posted on 12/12/2023 12:41:12 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eye)
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To: DallasBiff

Does everyone remember the gas station restrictions and of what day you were allowed go?

Remember the gas lines ON YOUR DAY?

Dang OPEC and our own unwillingness to drill.


63 posted on 12/12/2023 12:41:27 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: dfwgator
Well, I couldn't tell Pell's first two years from Dickey's last two years.

-PJ

64 posted on 12/12/2023 12:43:36 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: DallasBiff

Our Downfall Got A Good Footing In The 1960’s Under LBJ.


65 posted on 12/12/2023 12:43:56 PM PST by Pardeeville Liberator
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To: DallasBiff
I was just watching a YouTube last night of an episode of American Bandstand circa 1976.

Holy cripes. Yet I looked like this as well. Bell bottoms and platform shoes.

And no. The 70's were the best.

 


66 posted on 12/12/2023 12:45:22 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Bell bottoms fell out of fashion for straight leg blue jeans, rock and roll died spawning punk rock and new wave, and long hair gave way to short hair.


67 posted on 12/12/2023 12:46:37 PM PST by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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To: DallasBiff

It’s kind of asinine to generalize one particular 10-year period beginning with year xxx0 and ending with year xxx9 is “better” than some other 10-year period. There are good things and bad things happening all the time, everywhere and to everyone. It’s always a mixed bag. Babies are being born. People are dying. Money is being made. Money is being lost. People are loving each other. People are hating each other. Good movies are being made. Bad movies are being made. Great music is being made. Terrible music is being made.


68 posted on 12/12/2023 12:48:06 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: Responsibility2nd

Platform shoes? Not this boy.


69 posted on 12/12/2023 12:48:48 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I discovered females, drugs, and beer in 1970’s. Pretty damn good decade.


70 posted on 12/12/2023 12:49:22 PM PST by Calvin Cooledge
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To: Responsibility2nd

In 1975 ABBA were still seen as somewhat of an exotic Swedish import. They had hit the top 10 with “Waterloo” and followed it with the minor hit “Honey, Honey.” ABBA took the American Bandstand stage to perform “SOS.” Despite astonishingly bad clothing choices, ABBA remains a gold standard for pop music. These were the happy days for the group when Bjorn and Agnetha were married and Benny was engaged to Anni-Frid.

https://www.liveabout.com/american-bandstand-great-performances-3247085

Man I hated ABBA


71 posted on 12/12/2023 12:49:55 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: dfwgator
If you didn’t grow up in the 70s, watching “Dazed and Confused” is the closest thing to experiencing it.

Yes! It's like a documentary of my high school!

72 posted on 12/12/2023 12:50:02 PM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: DallasBiff

IMO. the 1970s brought only one slice of goodness; each of my 4 sons was born in that decade. I see the 1970s as marking the destruction of the family when feminism convinced so many people that it was a good idea for mothers to leave their precious children in the care of strangers in order to pursue work outside the home.


73 posted on 12/12/2023 12:51:28 PM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: DallasBiff

We are doubling down on the 70s.


74 posted on 12/12/2023 12:51:29 PM PST by WayneH (STCM USN Retired - Lifetime Cardinals fan)
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To: DallasBiff

Hell no! America was still America then and still had a soul.


75 posted on 12/12/2023 12:51:47 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: 38special
Bell bottoms fell out of fashion for straight leg blue jeans

Cue Sha Na NA

76 posted on 12/12/2023 12:52:14 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: DallasBiff

Skylab,Evel Knievel and Snake River Canyon,The Six Million Dollar Man,the Fonz,the Bicentennial,the ‘75 World Series,Charlie’s Angels,SNL was actually funny....


77 posted on 12/12/2023 12:53:14 PM PST by massmike (I'm only here to observe these earthlings.)
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To: DallasBiff

Find a good car manufactured between 1972-79. Pinto, Vega, Pacer, Aspen, etc. No horsepower with railroad tie bumpers.

Bell bottoms, leisure suits, white leather belts and shoes and unbuttoned patterned polyester shirts.

Avocado and gold appliances. Orange and gold shag carpeting.

EPA and Department of Education established.

Inflation.

Yeah, it was great.


78 posted on 12/12/2023 12:55:30 PM PST by alternatives?
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To: DallasBiff

I was young and resilient in the 70’s. Best thing was I missed Vietnam. Worst was Jimmie Carter, disco and how cocaine destroyed lives.

The whole 21st century is the worst. Very unstable.

The 70’s still had a modcum of civility.


79 posted on 12/12/2023 12:56:34 PM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: dfwgator

 

The best line from that movie?

 

 

I actually graduated high school in 1976. In San Antonio, not Austin. It's crazy how similar my life was to that movie.. "It'd be a whole lot cooler if you did."

80 posted on 12/12/2023 12:57:19 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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