Posted on 02/08/2024 1:31:25 PM PST by DallasBiff
Step into a time capsule as we explore the 70s! If you’re a bona fide 70s kid, prepare for a trip down memory lane that evokes waves of nostalgia. The era when bell bottoms reigned supreme, disco anthems ruled the airwaves, and Saturday mornings promised captivating cartoons. Revisit the tingling sensation of Space Dust on your taste buds and the triumphant feeling of unraveling a cassette tape with a trusty pencil. This journey isn’t just a stroll through the past; it’s a cherished badge of honor. So, ease into those groovy vibes, queue up some Bee Gees tunes, and traverse back to a world that was undeniably, and oh-so-groovily, the 70s.
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I thought The Jetsons, but now we have she/him, and EV's that don't work, and politicians and elitist, who want to shut down farms.
No sunscreen in the old days.
Sometimes I wonder if the sunscreens we are using today ar causing more harm than good....
never figured on tranny kids and wholesale ghey-ification of men; or the wholesale fragmentation of society by mass media.
think pretty much everything else could be foreseen.
Lava lamps were more ‘60s. The picture of the kid watching TV was definitely well past the ‘70s, given the style of TV and stereo.
They should have mentioned smoking sections everywhere, reel-to-reel tape decks, steel garbage cans, banana seat bicycles, earth shoes, I could go on.
I hit adulthood in the late 1960’s. My wife and I have a lava lamp. The article forgot CB radios that became ubiquitous because of the 55 speed limit resulting from the gas shortages.
Atari — with Steve Jobs and Wozniak making Breakout.
The next couple decades will be like what we thought the next couple decades would be like after seeing the Jetsons in the 60’s.
That was one of elon musk’s points. about 2000 he started asking what happened to the big space travel future we thought would happen.
Now he’s making that future.
AI and fusion are going to make it really science fictiony.
My Pet Rock from the 70’s is still living.
Ah. The old ditto machine. Our teachers would pass around papers fresh off the printer...and we would try to get a buzz off the fumes.
(1)Running through the fog of the mosquito fogger trucks in town (2) Ice cream mini truck with accompanying music (3) Nehru shirt (4) Beatles wig (looks suspiciously like an Afro)
I remember those days, for the younger ones here, back then the boys knew which bathroom to use.
Space Food Sticks. BucWheats Cereal. Snackin’ Cakes. Hunt’s Snack Pack pudding in aluminum cans (be careful if you lick the lid!)
Space Food Sticks. BucWheats Cereal. Snackin’ Cakes. Hunt’s Snack Pack pudding in aluminum cans (be careful if you lick the lid!)
I still have two lava lights on the counter.
Do microskirts count? Still have all of mine for memory’s sake.
You’ll never ever see the Roots mini-series in tv again.
Happy days was one of my faves
Wasn’t threes company one of the first with a gay guy?
Ditto machines? What the article describes seems like mimeograph machines and I remember them from the 60s, not the 70s.
There was a series called “The 21st Century” that aired back in the 60’s. It would be interesting to see it again.
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