That 70s Thread

Jet · 11-11-2009, 07:45 PM

Anything about the 1970s as you remember them. I've always liked this thread and thought I'd start one here on the Planet. Think I'll kick things off with Bennie & The Jets....

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0WCQadt864"]YouTube- Elton John-Benny & the Jets[/ame]

....of course it has Jets.........................

WolfyOne · 11-11-2009, 07:49 PM

Disco Lives

atomiczombie · 11-11-2009, 07:59 PM

I was born in 1970 so basically my memories of the 70s are all from a little kid's perspective.

I remember watching on T.V. Donny and Marie, The 6mil $ Man, Buck Rogers, Battle Star Galactica. MY parents listened to Neil Sedaka, the guy who sounded like a woman when he sang. My older brother was into Led Zepplin and Aerosmith. I liked those bands too. I remember coveting my brother's BMX bike. I wasn't allowed to have a boy's bike. -_- I also remember buying packs of firecrackers for 5 cents from a guy down the street. It's funny the things that make an impression on you when you are a kid.

WolfyOne · 11-11-2009, 08:03 PM

I was a trouble maker, ummm, I mean a teen in the 70's.

Novelafemme · 11-11-2009, 08:27 PM

(clears throat) um, I was born in 1973

But I remember banana bikes and pogo sticks...bell bottoms and Shazam. I miss terry cloth wrist bands and the fact that straight guys felt HAWT wearing daisy dukes.

TeaPartyTart · 11-12-2009, 09:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Novelafemme

(clears throat) um, I was born in 1973

But I remember banana bikes and pogo sticks...bell bottoms and Shazam. I miss terry cloth wrist bands and the fact that straight guys felt HAWT wearing daisy dukes.

I'm right there with you (1972). I loved my Honeycomb license plate, big wheel and my goloshes that said "left, right'. I also loved, LOVED the Brady Bunch and remember every episode.

Jet · 11-12-2009, 10:34 AM

I wore tie-dyed shirts
aviator glasses
shag haircut
elephant leg jeans
bear traps
and choker

I smoked hash and listened to a lot of Greg Allman

________________________________

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpNOoq0kFds"]YouTube- Gregg Allman- Multi-Colored Lady[/ame]

Eddie · 11-12-2009, 10:36 AM

I miss the golden shag carpet and the funky checkerboard wallpaper in the kitchen we had in the house.

Softhearted · 11-12-2009, 10:43 AM

I was born in 1967 and I do remember the 1970's and especially the banana bikes!!!! and the TV serie C.H.I.P.S! My younger brother and I would ride our banana bikes and pretend we were CHIPS officer

! Good memories for me.

Eddie · 11-12-2009, 10:45 AM

Also my Green Machine.

Sweet_Pea · 11-12-2009, 11:02 AM

I was born in 1978, so the best thing about the seventies to me is being born

and the music!!! [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VepVTmfjutY"]YouTube- I Just Wanna Be Your Everything, Andy Gibb[/ame]

Mister Bent · 11-12-2009, 07:44 PM

Born in the 70s! Damn you people make me feel old!

In 1974 I was 10, and in love with my older brother's 1970 Barracuda.

By 1976, it was Charlie's Angels - the start of my lifelong crush on Jaclyn Smith.

Jet · 11-15-2009, 09:31 AM

Great song from the 70s and prolly one of dozens that we partied to.
Born to Run was one of the hottest albums in '75 and
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––
10th Avenue Freeze Out

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktliuvsPa4g"]YouTube- Bruce Springsteen - Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out[/ame]

Soft*Silver · 11-15-2009, 12:29 PM

graduated in 1975
LOVED hash
hung out at a bar where a local biker gang hung out at
drank myself stupid every night. They took care of me because they knew my brother had just committed suicide in a very violent way
wore fringe jackets and Billy Jack hats
skinny dipped in the moonlight with other pot heads
watched the cranes at night in the quarries where we parked and fucked
listened to I can fly like an eagle while hotrodding down dirt country roads LONG before Starsky and Hutch was even a glimmer in some producer's eye
cant remember the music of the 70s until I hear it. Lots of black outs turned into memory loss...
made love in cornfields when the clover was in and the ground wasnt tore up yet
Burger King and McDonalds still served only beef and fish.
Barbie was queen
love beads died out and were replaced with mood rings

Dean Thoreau · 11-17-2009, 04:16 PM

graduated in 71....USAF .......... yes dick was up for election..could vote at age 18 and drink at 18........watergate.........
we left viet nam..after saying good bye to many friends....
a nickel bag of pot was only 5 dollars and u could gey 10 joints out of it.....
(well that is what i heard)

gallon of gas was 33.9 cents there was a shortage it went up to 49......... i could drive home on my honda 360T (500 miles) with $5.25 there were tolls to pay.
MASH was new........TB remotes had a 10 foot wire that was attached to the Tv..they called them clickers..cause they made a click click sound.
Cable TV was just beginning.....
The Goddess was the bars to go to in NYC, and peaches n bonnie n clydes....had my first orgasm at the Goddess (the drink)....fell in love every saturday night........
calculators were called adding machines..

telephones started making a sound if you got one with buttons....
the end of 70's craze was telephone sound songs.....(dont ask)

You woke up in 1972 to a song called "the happiest girl in the whole USA"

and in 1974 you streaked............

a ll neekid n stuff

a computer in 1974 took up the size of house to hold what you can on that little flash drive today..........

and Apple meant a fruit you picked off a tree.

Jet · 11-17-2009, 04:32 PM

Great post Dean. I remember it all and I'm right behind ya, Class of '74 which I'll show in here in a minute

Jet · 11-17-2009, 04:45 PM

I fell in love at 16 with a girl from another school. It ended in heartbreak when she told her parents about us and then went off to Vermillion to college. I drove a '66 cherry red Mustang my senior year and discovered the late Richard Brautigan. I smoked hash, did speed and mescalin and I went to the gay bar underaged every Saturday night until "Tank" the bouncer found out and banned us. It was a dark, seedy basement bar called "The Cave" and I always swore that if there was ever a fire, you'd never die from the blaze, you'd die from being trampled by queens in their high heels.

Some of the best times for me were in the 70s with great friends and concerts and parties. On my 30th reunion, I "outed" myself and no one batted an eye.

Isn't the passage of time amazing? Below, me at 16 and 52.

Arwen · 11-17-2009, 05:00 PM

I was that folkie chick that hung out with the band geeks and the NHS nerds. I wore clogs and love beads and wished I'd been born early enough to participate in the 60's. (missed it by thatmuch and was born in '61).

I was a Harry Chapin groupie as much as I could be (went to three or four concerts) and cried the day he died (8/18/85 in case anyone cares.) I spent my summers jumping off a rope into the bayou or canoeing down that same bayou by myself to read books.

The 70's were Steely Dan and Linda Rondstadt. I'm still a folkie chick at heart.

Jet · 11-22-2009, 07:11 PM

Went to dances and concerts wearing
tie-dyed shirts and studs down my elephant bells
I remember smokin' hash and drinking
Bartels & James on a hot summer night listening to:
__________________________________________________ _______________________________________

Wet Willie and Grand Funk Railroad

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSQOeQakExU"]YouTube- Grand Funk Railroad - The Locomotion[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg0BNTebcbY"]YouTube- Wet Willie Keep On Smiling[/ame]

Jet · 12-11-2009, 06:52 PM

Drinkin', hittin' and lovin her to Lady Blue
I was a hippie...diggin' Leon Russell

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xDyq_RcSo8"]YouTube- Leon Russell lady blue[/ame]

11-11-2009, 07:45 PM	#1
Jet Timed Out - TOS Drama How Do You Identify?: .. Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: .. Posts: 3,471 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 292 Thanked 2,646 Times in 1,293 Posts Rep Power: 0	That 70s Thread Anything about the 1970s as you remember them. I've always liked this thread and thought I'd start one here on the Planet. Think I'll kick things off with Bennie & The Jets.... [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0WCQadt864"]YouTube- Elton John-Benny & the Jets[/ame] ....of course it has Jets.........................

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Sweet_Pea Junior Member How Do You Identify?: Feminine Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: San Gabriel Valley Posts: 64 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4 Thanked 36 Times in 20 Posts Rep Power: 25921	I was born in 1978, so the best thing about the seventies to me is being born and the music!!! [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VepVTmfjutY"]YouTube- I Just Wanna Be Your Everything, Andy Gibb[/ame] __________________ An eye for an eye makes the world blind. . .

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Mister Bent Senior Member How Do You Identify?: . Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: . Posts: 2,905 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,151 Thanked 5,831 Times in 1,721 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Born in the 70s! Damn you people make me feel old! In 1974 I was 10, and in love with my older brother's 1970 Barracuda. By 1976, it was Charlie's Angels - the start of my lifelong crush on Jaclyn Smith. __________________ Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. - H. L. Mencken

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SoftSilver Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: femme Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: rose cottage Posts: 5,498 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 8,412 Thanked 15,612 Times in 3,973 Posts Rep Power*: 21474856	graduated in 1975 LOVED hash hung out at a bar where a local biker gang hung out at drank myself stupid every night. They took care of me because they knew my brother had just committed suicide in a very violent way wore fringe jackets and Billy Jack hats skinny dipped in the moonlight with other pot heads watched the cranes at night in the quarries where we parked and fucked listened to I can fly like an eagle while hotrodding down dirt country roads LONG before Starsky and Hutch was even a glimmer in some producer's eye cant remember the music of the 70s until I hear it. Lots of black outs turned into memory loss... made love in cornfields when the clover was in and the ground wasnt tore up yet Burger King and McDonalds still served only beef and fish. Barbie was queen love beads died out and were replaced with mood rings __________________ Pole bachit, a lis chuye. The field sees, the forest hears

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Dean Thoreau Member How Do You Identify?: Ftm - Male- exfemale Preferred Pronoun?: He’s Him Relationship Status: Has a gf Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Philadelphia pa Posts: 889 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 251 Thanked 759 Times in 219 Posts Rep Power: 4529748	graduated in 71....USAF .......... yes dick was up for election..could vote at age 18 and drink at 18........watergate......... we left viet nam..after saying good bye to many friends.... a nickel bag of pot was only 5 dollars and u could gey 10 joints out of it..... (well that is what i heard) gallon of gas was 33.9 cents there was a shortage it went up to 49......... i could drive home on my honda 360T (500 miles) with $5.25 there were tolls to pay. MASH was new........TB remotes had a 10 foot wire that was attached to the Tv..they called them clickers..cause they made a click click sound. Cable TV was just beginning..... The Goddess was the bars to go to in NYC, and peaches n bonnie n clydes....had my first orgasm at the Goddess (the drink)....fell in love every saturday night........ calculators were called adding machines.. telephones started making a sound if you got one with buttons.... the end of 70's craze was telephone sound songs.....(dont ask) You woke up in 1972 to a song called "the happiest girl in the whole USA" and in 1974 you streaked............ a ll neekid n stuff a computer in 1974 took up the size of house to hold what you can on that little flash drive today.......... and Apple meant a fruit you picked off a tree. __________________ Dean Thoreau

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Jet Timed Out - TOS Drama How Do You Identify?: .. Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: .. Posts: 3,471 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 292 Thanked 2,646 Times in 1,293 Posts Rep Power: 0	I wore tie-dyed shirts aviator glasses shag haircut elephant leg jeans bear traps and choker I smoked hash and listened to a lot of Greg Allman ________________________________ [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpNOoq0kFds"]YouTube- Gregg Allman- Multi-Colored Lady[/ame]

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Softhearted Member How Do You Identify?: --- Preferred Pronoun?: ---- Relationship Status: --- Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: --- Posts: 298 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 454 Thanked 285 Times in 109 Posts Rep Power: 1556233	I was born in 1967 and I do remember the 1970's and especially the banana bikes!!!! and the TV serie C.H.I.P.S! My younger brother and I would ride our banana bikes and pretend we were CHIPS officer ! Good memories for me.

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Jet Timed Out - TOS Drama How Do You Identify?: .. Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: .. Posts: 3,471 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 292 Thanked 2,646 Times in 1,293 Posts Rep Power: 0	Great song from the 70s and prolly one of dozens that we partied to. Born to Run was one of the hottest albums in '75 and –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ––––– 10th Avenue Freeze Out [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktliuvsPa4g"]YouTube- Bruce Springsteen - Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out[/ame]

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Jet Timed Out - TOS Drama How Do You Identify?: .. Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: .. Posts: 3,471 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 292 Thanked 2,646 Times in 1,293 Posts Rep Power: 0	Great post Dean. I remember it all and I'm right behind ya, Class of '74 which I'll show in here in a minute

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Jet Timed Out - TOS Drama How Do You Identify?: .. Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: .. Posts: 3,471 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 292 Thanked 2,646 Times in 1,293 Posts Rep Power: 0	I fell in love at 16 with a girl from another school. It ended in heartbreak when she told her parents about us and then went off to Vermillion to college. I drove a '66 cherry red Mustang my senior year and discovered the late Richard Brautigan. I smoked hash, did speed and mescalin and I went to the gay bar underaged every Saturday night until "Tank" the bouncer found out and banned us. It was a dark, seedy basement bar called "The Cave" and I always swore that if there was ever a fire, you'd never die from the blaze, you'd die from being trampled by queens in their high heels. Some of the best times for me were in the 70s with great friends and concerts and parties. On my 30th reunion, I "outed" myself and no one batted an eye. Isn't the passage of time amazing? Below, me at 16 and 52.

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Arwen Joy Seeker How Do You Identify?: Smartly-Flavored Preferred Pronoun?: Goddess Relationship Status: Mrs. Syzygy 1/9/14 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Joyville, NM (aka Land of Enchantment) Posts: 10,140 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,636 Thanked 28,131 Times in 6,414 Posts Rep Power: 21474861	I was that folkie chick that hung out with the band geeks and the NHS nerds. I wore clogs and love beads and wished I'd been born early enough to participate in the 60's. (missed it by thatmuch and was born in '61). I was a Harry Chapin groupie as much as I could be (went to three or four concerts) and cried the day he died (8/18/85 in case anyone cares.) I spent my summers jumping off a rope into the bayou or canoeing down that same bayou by myself to read books. The 70's were Steely Dan and Linda Rondstadt. I'm still a folkie chick at heart. __________________ I wrote a book, y'all! *FREE* Tarotscopes Seek Joy, y'all. Eschew hate. 9Words: A Poetry Challenge \| Do you like me?

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Jet Timed Out - TOS Drama How Do You Identify?: .. Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: .. Posts: 3,471 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 292 Thanked 2,646 Times in 1,293 Posts Rep Power: 0	Went to dances and concerts wearing tie-dyed shirts and studs down my elephant bells I remember smokin' hash and drinking Bartels & James on a hot summer night listening to: __________________________________________________ _______________________________________ Wet Willie and Grand Funk Railroad [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSQOeQakExU"]YouTube- Grand Funk Railroad - The Locomotion[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg0BNTebcbY"]YouTube- Wet Willie Keep On Smiling[/ame]

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Jet Timed Out - TOS Drama How Do You Identify?: .. Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: .. Posts: 3,471 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 292 Thanked 2,646 Times in 1,293 Posts Rep Power: 0	Drinkin', hittin' and lovin her to Lady Blue I was a hippie...diggin' Leon Russell [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xDyq_RcSo8"]YouTube- Leon Russell lady blue[/ame]