You are a child of the 70's if...

[Archae]

You went to school with pants that went "shoop shoop" when you walked.

Earth Shoes.

Saturday morning cartoons were 99% H-B crap.

Who needed drugs when there were Sid and Marty Kroft shows?

Bionic! (With slow-motion running.)

AM radio played music.

You remember when Michael Jackson was this black kid with an afro.

DISCO!!!

Worst two things you could get from sex were syphilis and pregnant.

Disaster movies.

Star Wars!

Vietnam and Nixon's presidency ended.

Jimmah!

Gerald "Whoops!" Ford.

Saturday Night Live was cool.

Bicentennial hucksters.

Schoolhouse Rock.

Any more?

[Pendrench]

1. Evel Knievel!!

Seems like he was jumping something or other on Wide World of Sports each week (not to mention the cool action figure and motorcycle - I think I went through 4 or 5 of them).

Tim

[soleft]

2. Clackers

Cheech and Chong Big Bamboo

Print polyestor button down shirts

The Hammill hair cut

wallabees

Italian horns

Must see TV was on Sat night

Roots

Fruit Float

Jaws

Soda bottles wrapped in styrofoam

[carlydenise]

clackers were awesome!

I had a set that was clear with glitter inside of the balls. I was the playground champ, the school ended up banning them because kids were breaking noses, elbows wrists.....one day I had those clackers going pretty fast and one flew off the string...thank goodness no one was in the path
Carly

[BuddhaGirl]

69. clackers!!!!

my brother and I had those - they were SOOO dangerous! We broke the glass-topped dining room table one night and we never saw our clackers again LOLOL

[driver8]

56. How about Lawn Jarts??!!

I think my parents still have a set of these in our garage.

[Pendrench]

3. Almost forgot.....Mr. Microphone n/t

[Archae]

4. And the Pocket Fisherman!

(I actually still have one...) :rofl:

[woo me with science]

31. and Ronco bottle cutters.

Can you imagine them marketing bottle cutters to kids today?

[Drum]

5. 8-track player in the car,

blasting Styx "Grand Illusion"!

Good times...:hippie:

[azmouse]

10. And the broken 8-track tapes littering the roads!

Damn things always got jammed up.

Yep, good times! :smoke:

[carlydenise]

58. 8 tracks

I was sooo glad when cassettes came out. I had Fleetwood Mac's Rumors and remember having to listen to a certain point on one track and having to change to track 3 to get to the song I really wanted to listen to, I do not miss them at all LOL
Carly

[carlydenise]

6. some more (late 70's when we were all preteens)

American Bandstand on Saturday mornings
roller skating rinks on Friday nights, disco music and the hope of skating with the hunk at the rink
Farrah Fawcett hair
Pet rocks
CB radios (these were definitely the 70's version of MSN messenger)...what was your handle?
Jean Nate
Those hair clips which were actually roach clips decorated with suede string and feathers
blacklights, blacklight posters, strobe lights
Andy Gibb, Leif Garret, Shaun Cassidy
yeah....those were good times.......
Carly

[bertha katzenengel]

48. "(late 70's when we were all preteens)" -- all WHO, whippersnapper?

Signed,

Forty-three and loving it. :hi:

[OnionPatch]

57. LOL

I had the Farrah Fawcett hair thing going. :rofl: I had one of those roach clips, too.

[azmouse]

7. If you remember the mini-series 'Roots'

[Drum]

9. "I AM Kunta Kinte!"

We remember :)

[jus_the_facts]

8. Pop Rocks... Pet Rocks....Roller Boogie... Trans Am's.... Firebird's... Freebird....

...Tony Orlando and Dawn's 'Tie A Yellow Ribbon'...YOU LIGHT UP MYYYYYYY LIIIIIIIIFE :puke:...Sonny and Cher....Donnie and Marie ON ICE...Happy Days...The LOVE BOAT...Three's Company...ahh the memories. :D

[jus_the_facts]

14. How could I forget....SOLID GOLD...

http://www.tv.com/solid-gold/show/2476/summary.html

:rofl:

[Pool Hall Ace]

11. Cinnamon toothpicks!

Somebody's mom would make some, they would be brought to school and shared. Then another kid would rub his eye and irritate it with cinnamon oil, and the toothpicks would be banned.

Repeat every year of elementary school.

[Left Is Write]

12. The Hudson Brothers. Primetime variety shows.

Mystery shows: McMillan & Wife, McCloud, Columbo, Ellery Queen

The Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys hour

Rollerskating, feathered hair, message-bearing combs worn in the back pocket, Flower Power, Free To Be You & Me, the hostage crisis (no one has to ask which hostages!)

[SaveElmer]

13. Feathered Hair, Puka Shells, Silk imprinted shirts...

Leisure Suits!!!

[catzies]

51. You just described my high school yearbook photo!

:P

[China_cat]

15. Couple of things

Worst two things you could get from sex were syphilis and pregnant.

Especially the latter if you were male.

You remember when Michael Jackson was this black kid with an afro.

Only in America can a poor black kid grow up to be a rich white woman.


(Sorry, couldn't resist)

[cwydro]

16. Cassette tapes were the newest thing

:rofl: .

And our bathroom was orange!

[QMPMom]

18. Hell, our KITCHEN was orange.

[cwydro]

20. OMG

so was OURS! I just couldn't even admit it even now..:rofl: .

[QMPMom]

21. I am so glad that there is someone else out there who

survived an orange kitchen!

[woo me with science]

28. Yes! With big, daisy flowers on the wallpaper! nt

[woo me with science]

29. What were those Mr. Science movies? or Mr. Sun?

Anybody remember those? We saw them at school, and the star was this guy in a white labcoat.

Also Pippi Longstocking

[u4ic]

41. Mine was, too!

The bedroom wallpaper was a bright purple psychedelic pattern. :rofl:

[bertha katzenengel]

50. We had orange shag carpet.

Don't think THAT hasn't worked its way into more than one nightmare. :scared:

[InvisibleTouch]

71. Heh. I STILL have an orange shag carpet...

...which I've laboriously dragged with me to 3 different homes by now. Not willing to give it up, either. :)

[Radio_Lady]

54. Our kitchen was AVOCADO GREEN! And we were raising five kids in the 70s!

At least, the refrigerator and stove were avocado green.

[carlydenise]

59. and you know what? Avocado green stuff is back

only they call it "sage" these days, but not appliances tho, hopefully avocodo green appliances are buried waaaaay down deep.......our kitchen was avocodo green, as was our carpet, coordinating sofa pillows....shudders........
Carly

[Radio_Lady]

70. Hey, Carly! Yes, I've noticed that green again...

I'm thick in the middle of trying to redecorate a room with a Southwestern look.

Impossible... Southwestern is WAY OUT of style from the 1990s...

[carlydenise]

72. I still have some southwestern stuff

I lived in NM, so the decor was abundant and it was expected to decorate in this way. I liked the SW look, the pastels etc.

[QMPMom]

17. Partridge Family/David Cassidy, Brady Bunch, Room 222,

Love American Style, Archie Bunker, The Jeffersons.

Platform shoes

bell bottom pants

bomb scares from neighboring schools during high school basketball playoffs in hopes that the basketball team would get sick while they were outside. (Ok, maybe it was just an Indiana thing where I was! LOL! Nyah, Nyah, we still beat you Tigers!)

[Kali]

19. Orange shag carpet.

Avocado kitchen appliances.

[Irishonly]

25. Streaking

Rocky Horror Show shown at midnight-every week
Earth shoes
Aspen
Shag haircuts
Chevettes
Midnight Special

[Kali]

44. Midnight Special ...

KING BISCUIT FLOWER HOUR!!!!

[puerco-bellies]

45. Don Kirshner's Rock Concert

Midnight Special, and last but not least In Concert.

[skygazer]

22. Holey jeans that you didn't buy that way

They were honest holes, from wear and tear. Worn proudly.

Headbands.

Muscle cars - I can think of two guys I went out with solely for their cars (an Olds 442 and a late 60's Buick Skylark).

Transistor radios - usually tucked in a pocket of your denim jacket.

No disco for me - damn fine rock and roll.


Happy Thanksgiving - I'm thankful for being born into a really fun era.

[Blue in Bama]

23. KISS

Listenin to fuckin' KISS wide open on somebodies 8 track player in the school parking lot before classes started! Got me though the DAY!

[dolo amber]

37. The first album I ever bought with my own money was

KISS Destroyer. I was like 6. :D

[Blue in Bama]

66. Good investment

Occasionally I still pull my old KISS records out, haha....

[idgiehkt]

24. rock-em sock-em robots

lite-brite, etch-a-sketch, stretch armstrong...

[woo me with science]

26. Mood rings

Dawn fashion doll
Bead curtain on your bedroom door
Dr. Scholl's
yellow polyester pant suit
Liddle Kiddles (or was that the 60's?)
Battling Tops
Bee Gees

[woo me with science]

27. Sarah T, Teenage Alcoholic

and other ABC after-school specials

[Left Is Write]

30. I remember that one. And Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway.

I actually have some of the Afterschool Specials on DVD, but not those two.

I just thought of another 70s movie, though: "Sooner Or Later", which featured Rex Smith. I also read that book. (And I read "Forever" and "Mr. & Mrs. Bo Jo Jones" and other teen "classics").

[woo me with science]

32. I remember hiding "Forever" from the librarian.

had it behind a book about horses LOL.

[woo me with science]

33. delete dupe

[woo me with science]

34. delete. wrong place

[woo me with science]

35. Pong, Atari Space Invaders, and forced choice dilemmas re: technology

It always seemed that new technology came out in two versions, and only one survived.


Atari or Magnavox video game system?
Cassettes or 8-Tracks?
VHS or Beta video cassette recorder?


Our family always made the wrong decision. We bought 8-tracks, Magnavox, and Beta, all of which were obsolete within a couple years.

[QMPMom]

36. Black nail polish that was scented.

Three Dog Night

Alice Cooper

Yellow and black Chevy Nova's (oops.... remembering a little too much!)

[SPKrazy]

38. Leisure Suits!

the original Starsky and Hutch

Welcome back Kotter

etc.

[no_hypocrisy]

39. R. Crumb Comix (Fritz the Cat)`

Woodstock
Billie Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs
The Odd Couple, MASH, Love American Style, Mary Tyler Moore Show, All in the Family, The Bob Newhart Show, Carol Burnett, Dallas, Soap, SCTV
Hiphuggers, denim jackets,platform shoes
Macon County Line, Buster and Billie, The Godfather

[u4ic]

40. Slush puppies, kids playing outside

I rarely see kids playing outside anymore...

[carlydenise]

61. wow, that described my childhood

we lived down the street from a quick shop, they made a fortune off of me in the summer on slush puppies alone.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

42. Wearing tight polyester body suits with jeans

Living a pleasant graduate student life on $325 a month

Learning to word process on a terminal of a mainframe with a program that used dot commands

Only Italian bakeries sold espresso and cappucino

[puerco-bellies]

43. Levi Super Bell Bottoms, $10 Lids (1oz) of commercial

I once tripped over my own S-Bells when I freaked and tried to run when a sheriff patrol car dove by. They never even saw us smoking a dubie.

[RetroLounge]

46. 70's? Yikes!

Yeah, I remember...

Green shag carpet in the livingroom with orange couch and chairs.

Bad Quianna knit disco shirts, unbuttoned, with shells or chains.

platform shoes.

CB Radio craze.

Beer can collecting.

Top 40 on AM radio.

60's muscle cars were affordable used cars (I had a 1965 Impala SS in 1979).

Charley's Angels, Farrah posters with the nipple...

Kiss Alive!

RL

[bertha katzenengel]

47. Saturday Night Live was GOOD.

And yesterday's bicentennial hucksters now sell yellow ribbons, plastic U.S. flags to flutter from our cars, and gold coins with little raised images of the Twin Towers on them. Can't keep assholes from being crass opportunistic capitalists, can we?

[liberaltrucker]

49. 70's? As a child of the 60's, my memory is a bit foggy from...

'69 till they started pee tests.

:hippie:

:shrug:

[Swede]

52. Aerosmith,Deep Purple,Black Sabbath...............

There was lots of great music.

[SoyCat]

53. And don't forget kitchens with either mushrooms or owls as the motif.

[QMPMom]

65. Oh my. I had successfully forgotten about the mushroom

canister set in the aforementioned orange kitchen. I hated those canisters more than I hated the orange kitchen!

[zanne]

68. I had a mushroom candle collection! nt

[mykpart]

55. If you remember "Rich Man Poor Man"

back when a miniseries meant more than two episodes.

[NewWaveChick1981]

60. Collecting Wacky Packages trading cards, cool bikes with banana seats and

psychedelic tassels hanging from the handlebars, elephant leg pants, The Bee Gees and/or Saturday Night Fever, Dawn dolls (damn, I loved those more than Barbies, and I LOVED Malibu Barbie, Stacy, Skipper, etc.), being able to buy a Hershey's bar for a dime, MASH was first-run, shag carpet, David Cassidy/Partridge Family, Tiger Beat magazine, ZOOM on public TV, Dynamite magazine, and everything else you said!!! :loveya:

[Lochloosa]

62. Saturday Night Fever!

[Bassic]

63. I was born in the '70's

But I'm really a child of the '80's. Star Wars still worked for us though :D

[Orsino]

64. Big ol' hair.

For the women, it was Farrah wings. Not sure who to blame for the monstrosity I wore.

[Lochloosa]

67. No Cell Phones!

[InvisibleTouch]

73. Space 1999!

I was like 7 or 8, and loved that show. Still do. I'm slowly gathering the DVD sets:

http://www.amazon.com/Space-1999-Megaset-Bob-Kellett/dp/B00006FD8P/sr=8-1/qid=1164396175/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-5512430-4778318?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

Though I was surprised at how impatient I was with the pace of the first episode, upon seeing it again after 20-some years. That story could easily have been compressed into 20 minutes - or it needed a few subplots to keep things interesting. The rest of the series is wonderful, though!