Music will do it...always. Memories stay suppressed for a while, but then
every once in a while, you hear a song like "Dancin' In the Moonlight" by
King Harvest (which I SWEAR if Van Morrison) and the memories come rushing
in, from Junior High School, straight through to graduation. The 70's were
great for me, having been born in 56, I grew up in the midst of the all of
the best music, certainly with variety. From a family of 8 kids, I heard
it all...rock, mowtown, blues, Sinatra, all of it...and it was the best way
to grow up, surrounded by music. So, when I hear anything from the late 60's
into the 70's, it is nostalgia extreme...mostly happy, sometimes bittersweet,
like old loves! I truly enjoy reading everyone's memories, and will definitly
visit again, once I've collected a few of my own, other than "elephant bells"
and "Boone's Farm" wine..(ahhh..you all remember it, don't you??)
Kerrie
<Kerrie615@aol.com>
Laguna Beach, CA USA - Thursday, May 18, 2006 at 20:12:48 (EDT)
Golden Years as Bowie would have said it best defines the 70's for me. A
'61 child and oldest of 4 brothers all a year apart, we conquered it all
and laid it to waste. We moved a lot which gave us all opportunities to take
advantage of the times as many of you on this site have described as "Carefree".
I guess it all began for me living next door to a red haired "Hippie" teenage
girl in the 60's. Sunbathing on her garage roof, no bra, token it up while
"babysitting" yea, all of that got my attention. No less impressionable were
the stories from my friends about their older brothers in Nam. The craziness
and all crept in my fragile egg shell mind of a pre-teen that would be the
wind to set my sail to an adventure that no one could ever had imagined.
The Bros and I were Silver Spooned raised and all that helped us on our way.
That way being stops in Chicago '71 - '73 wow. music and blues all rolled
into one. Staying up late with my digital AM/FM radio memorizing every tune
that played from 10 p.m. to Midnight. By the way this is when Swinns with
banana seats and sissy bars rode throughout my 'hood' dragging their first
cig and buzzing on their first beer or two at a nearby camp-out by the local
quarry. Cleveland '74 - '75 meant watching the Cool Ghoul on our UHF channel
as long as the antenna was right on Parma. "Oh Black Water keep on moving,
Mississippi Moon won't you keep on Shining on me..." During this time I guess
I awake to music and all of its subtleness that would guide me on our journey
through the 70's. Because if I ever want to be in that time, all I have to
do is slip, slide away into a lyric or acoustic guitar WRIF and lay me down
like a bridge over trouble water. Sail on bye and all your dreams are on
your way. Speaking of Dream Weaver, one of the best of this era...I digress...Its
now 'Bi-centennial Cincinnati '76 and '77 times well let's rock - WEBN Frogger.
Yea my first one toke over the line sweet Jesus one toke over the line time.
If you could ever hold a moment in time this would be it. Homegrown filtered
through a loaded chamber and offered by the sweetest angle on vacation in
the Hills of West by God Virginia. OMG celebrate celebrate dance to the
music....Now we have to start getting serious, after the Summer of '76 its
off to another High School and yes its not Catholic, I truly have died and
gone to Heaven. Guess what I discovered, oh yea, the better half of a Ying
Yang. The problem at this time being a '76 - '77 shopmore is remembering
their names Big Nat, Lisa Lisa, Amy, I was mellow with it, were they? Of
course they were it was the 70's and that's the point, everyone was mellow
with it and they were happy
are they now? Now its '78 and a road trip
up North to Detroit but not so fast, I'll think I linger a bit in '77 rolling
a few, fake ID's for Little Kings and seeing Zeppelin, I'll recap concerts
at the end but I have to warn you its a trip. OK now its '78 and 11th grade
at this school we got "A's" in one class sitting on our desks meditating
to Vonnegut and another playing "Risk". I hope the dichotomy is not lost
on you...Well my crowning achievement outside of getting caught making out
with a our rivals High Schools Principal's daughter by his Cop/ golf buddy
was being the King of the Dicks. Yes, a prestigious title only bestowed on
only the most worthy of Dicks; a group of highly energized yet at this time
of their lives directional challenged lot. I promised you concerts and more
and that will come but for now my nine year olds baseball game looms and
I grow weary. Till we meet again
.
Greg "Pool Hustler"
<gangsix@aol.com>
USA - Saturday, May 13, 2006 at 23:20:10 (EDT)
Hi, my wife and I were looking through the internet and found this site.
I can't tell you how much fun it has been for us to read some of the stuff
that have been discussed on here. All the things that have helped to stir
the memories of our heydays, back when we were both so young and hip to all
that was groovy then . I was born in 69' and my wife was born in 64' but
we both share alot of the same fond memories from our childhood's and feeling
free as can be too. For her it was remembering things like: Easy-Bake Ovens,
Chrissy Dolls and Little Kiddle Dolls. She would tell me about how she would
drool over Tiger Beat Magazine covers especially those with Peter Frampton,
Andy Gibb, or KISS on the covers. How just the thought of marrying either
Shawn Cassidy or Greg Evigan would leave her breathless at night. How her
friends at school would debate as to whom was much more sexier...John Schneider
or Eric Estrada. The times she'd ride to school on her very own 10-speed
bike complete with those old orange flagpoles so cars could see her. She
told me how she would beg her mother for either a Barbie Doll, Lite Brite's,
or Etch-A-Sketch's. Her favorite television shows to watch back then were
Little House On The Prarie, The Waltons, Dallas, Alice, Love American Style,
The Love Boat, and One Day At A Time. She'd go to drive-ins to see movies
such as Saturday Night Fever, Grease, and Urban Cowboy. My wife says to me
that it was also a great time to be a kid then because you could play games
into the night without worrying that you'd be kidnapped or abducted. She
would play games like Red Rover, Hide and Seek, Freeze/Tag, T.V. Tag, and
Mummy In The Night. She talks about how she would be on pins and needles
while waiting for the ice cream man or the good humor man to show up so she
could try the latest flavors that they had to sell. To be able to go to an
A&W restaurant and get herself a frosted mug with a rootbeer float in
it. She says to me that going out on a Friday or Saturday Night to a roller-rink
with your friends was the big thing to do where she grew up at and how they
would play songs like (Dancing Queen) by ABBA, (Sugar Sugar) by the Archies,
or (Y.M.C.A.) by The Village People. She tells me now of how she fondly remembers
watching the Brady Bunch and wishing she was Greg Brady's girfriend. Now
with me on the other hand, I remember waking up on Saturday mornings to shows
like...Sigmund and the Sea-Monsters, Land Of The Lost, Shazam, The Secrets
Of Isis, Jason Of Star Command, and Ark II. Then i'd sit up nights to watch
The Dukes Of Hazzard, Starsky and Hutch, Welcome Back Kotter, What's Happening,
Sanford and Son, Chico and The Man, Happy Days, and Otherworld. I would go
to the movies on the weekends at night to see such things as The Bad News
Bears, The Apple Dumpling Gang, Jaws, Star Wars, and Smokey And The Bandit.
Music would also play a big part of my upbringing too...I mean heck you had
Rock and Roll, Disco, New Wave, and Country Music to listen to on the radio
back then before it became considered old-skool as they call it now...or
else the teens today will call it retro-music. I remember listening to bands
like The Eagles, Journey, The Doobie Brothers, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Bee
Gees, ABBA, Sister Sledge, The Pointer Sisters and KC and The Sunshine Band.
Singers like Waylon Jennings, Rod Stewart, Donna Summers, and Stevie Nicks
from Fleetwood Mac..to name but a few. I remember the thrill of going to
a Mc Donald's, a Colonel Sander's Kentucky Fried Chicken, Bob's Big Boy
restaurant, Burger Chef and Jeff's fast food restaurant, or if we were real
lucky, my parents took us out to eat breakfast at Uncle John's Original Pancake
Houses..that is...whenever our family had any extra spending money...which
was a real treat then, by the way. I even remember when my parents got me
my first Burger King crown and how suddenly special I felt just then to be
a kid. Yes I'll admit it...I was a playboy back then too . I was always wanting
to roll around in a hayloft with Daisy Duke, or be handcuffed to Farrah
Fawcette...in the backseat of a police car, to be scared out of my pants
by Elvira, Mistress of The Dark, to fly away with Wonder Woman or Isis or
maybe just sit and arm-wrestle with the Bionic Woman for days on end. Oh
hey, remember getting up every saturday morning to watch cartoons and kids
shows from around six o'clock in the morning till about noon? What happened
to all the toons anyhow? Geez, makes you think as if someone is hording them
all, so that kids and parents today can't all watch them together. Does anyone
out there remember eating Snack Tray Pizzas or Morton's glazed
Honeybuns...because they tasted oh so good. By the way.....best pizza parlor
of all times had to be Lamppost Pizza....talk about cheese. I mean you never
had to ask for extra cheese like you do today with Pizza Hut, Dominos, Papa
John's or Little Ceasars...cause they loaded your pizzas back then, maybe
it was they just had more pride in their foods back then than today. Our
sixteen year old daughter told me of the horror she faced with the choice
of what to eat from her school cafeteria lunch that day....was it to be soy
burgers that were microwave-heated or would it be or cole slaw with
banannas....as though it was even a real choice. The funny thing is sitting
there with your children if you have been blessed to have had any......and
see their eyes pop out of their heads while sitting there with you watching
H.R. Puffenstuff....and then to hear them say things to you like..."Was there
that much drug use back then...even with television producers?" Well this
sure has been fun to reminice about those days. It's even better though when
you can be with others to talk about them too. Great website! Outstanding
job Robin.
John and Debbie
<tknbydeb@yahoo.com>
Bolivar, MO USA - Tuesday, April 11, 2006 at 23:16:31 (EDT)
I've got the tube tuned into my DISH satellite which includes several SIRIUS
channnels. One of my favorites happens to be the 70's music channel. Good
Lord! The memories. Tonight, SIRIUS is playing so many songs from the golden
age of my life. Every silly ass little song from 1971 and '72 tugs at my
heart. These are/were bubble gum pop crap to most, but to me, pure gold.
They take me back to such a simpler time. I remember buying a box of Post
Cereal Sugar Smacks just for the box. On the back, was a paper (cut along
the dotted line, thank you) 45rpm of the Sugar Bears' one big hit, "You Are
the One". Can you believe that we used to cut out 45's from the back of cereal
boxes? When I wasn't playing it on the old Hi-Fi, I'd keep a dictionary on
top of it to keep the ends from curling up. I had peace signs everywhere,
yellow Smiley Faces stickers and T-shirts, green and white ecology patches
on my jeans, love beads...big hoop earrings AND earrings (some included styles
that doubled as roach clips as I got older--tee-hee). I had floppy hats.
Platform shoes. An Edith Bunker--Dingbat for President poster and speaking
of posters, black light posters EVERYWHERE. I bought scented candles in all
the hip, cool shapes and burned patchoulie insense and wasn't happy until
my room looked and smelled like a head shop or at 12, what I THOUGHT was
a head shop. I had long hair parted down the middle and wore god-awful aqua-blue
eye shadow from the master's of tacky at Maybelline. AND I THOUGHT I WAS
HOT. Was life really that simple? Was I that simple? Or perhaps, the big
question is, am I all that complicated now? Not sure what the answer is,
but I know that like most of you, I long for those days..salad days, halcyon
tims, happier days of yore. The other night, I watched an awards special
on TV Land honoring legendary shows which were all a part of my growing up
and I couldn't believe how all these stars had the audacity to age. I then
went to my make-up mirror and took a good long look at my own face. I'm 47
and looked it. Somewhere, somehow, I too had the audacity to age. When did
that happen? I stared at the face in my reflection. I looked into my eyes.
I know they're supposed to be the same pair which used to look back at me
during my Jr. High days. I knew they were the same, but they weren't. They'd
seen so much since my childhood.
Pain..unahppiness..instability..disappointment...in other words, life. I
wanted desperately to see something in my face, my eyes that I could recognize.
And then, of all things...Paul McCartney's "Uncle Albert" came blarring out
of my TV from SIRIUS 70's. That song...it reminded me of Mark, my Jr. High
boyfriend who I loved dearly...........a few seconds later, I finally saw
something I recognized from all those years ago.....my tears. Ah, the memories.
Sometimes, there's happiness within the sad. Sometimes.
LK
<lkmm7129@hotmail.com>
Houston, TX USA - Thursday, March 23, 2006 at 23:40:38 (EST)
What I remember most about the 70s is its death and mine. I was
born Joseph Macdonald and near my 7th birth day in 1970 Joseph Macdonald
was no more. I was adopted and soon people would be calling me Smity
or Smith from here on out. What a way to bring in the 70s (competing
with the Jones) I grew up in the Midwest and most of my ghosts still
live there in the albums I have lost or lent to friends and were never returned
or returned scratched and warped. I remember waiting for the TV to warm up
before you could watch it. I remember my tube radio and when I got a cool
little transistor radio the came wrapped in leather and had a handle. I remember
my parents making me get my afro cut and how when you got your hair cut in
the 70s it just wasnt cool. Plaid bell bottoms reigned for those
of us whose parent didnt think faded blue jeans were what kids should
be wearing to school and if I did get jeans they were of the JC pennys
plain pocket variety. I had those puffy shirts that had flowers and
paisley prints. I had a Schwinn Stingray with a banana seat and some wicked
handle bars that curved around like rams horns. The 70s were different
in the Midwest. For the most part people in little towns like the one I grew
up in were nerds and Squares. A few kids parents let them have
really long hair and got them jean jackets and them they would put patches
on them... Like keep on truckn Moon (with the big eyes),
and of course the good old peace sign. I wasnt old enough to know much
about the war going on in Viet Nam. But, every kid I know who was cool when
we got to Jr. High had a green army jacket. Yes the 70s was cars, drugs,
sex and what ever was on the news that night as we tuned in on the world
for the first time via Satellite But, after reading a few of
the posts on here Its would seem that for the most part the 70s
were a time of loss. The 50s and 60s were like the birth of America
into a new world where you could be what ever you wanted and it was cutting
edge because it was different and wild. And what the 70s did was in
a way Kill it all with cookie cutter efficiency. The 70s was for America
the last gasp of that thing that made us independent thinkers and pioneers.
Ill miss the 70s till I am 6 feet under and with each passing
year Ill relish growing up in an age where you faced the other way
in the 3rd seat of the family wagon and held up signs saying help Im
being kidnapped and no one cared while they just waved hello to the
smiling kids in the back seat.
Joseph Smith
Mission viejo, CA USA - Thursday, March 23, 2006 at 20:04:01 (EST)
The whole 60's and 70's were a wonderful coming out for me. From my Debutante
Ball to my huge curly Afro and bell jeans. From my brand new 1967 raised-up,
wide oval tire, auto-stick, glass pak muffler Mustang to my first apartment
with it's huge stereo speakers, Jimi Hendrix screaming guitar to James Brown's
Bass driven "I'm Black and I'm Proud", and the blinking black light-Oh Yes!
I worked full time and sometimes also part time just to supply my disco dancing
outfits, mini skirts, hot pants, dashiki's, halter tops, lace up boots, and
platform shoes. Me and my posse traveled all over just to party hardy. From
Southern Ohio to Southern California, what a life.
Nati Girl
<nchjazzyjeep@yahoo.com>
Cinci Now, OH USA - Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 20:34:29 (EST)
I was a child of the 70's, born 1965. I remember being as young as 7 years
old wearing my american stars & stripes hiphugger pants with bell bottoms.
I remember halter tops and hot pants. I remember Dr. Scholls sandals, thick
weddge-like sandals(buffalo shoes?). I remember tons of kids in the neighborhood
(baby boom) and we had the freedom to ride our bikes for blocks without parents
worrying about us (it was a different time). I remember going to the last
of the drive-in movie theaters to see Jaws, Grease, Poseiden Adventure, Planet
of the Apes. Also, remember seeing Saturday Night Fever with my parents at
the age of 12 (parents didn't realize the content of the movie). I remember
Roller Skating Rinks on Friday nights with the disco ball (not rollerblades).
I remember hearing Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Styx blaring
on the radio of the teenager's van down the street (same guy who played "smoke
on the water" over and over again on his electric guitar), and the old zooped
up cars which were jacked up in the back with large tires. I remember my
parents telling me to stay away from the "hippies house" which were neighbors
who had about 10 adults (commune) living in one home with tons of vans and
motorcycles. My brothers and I would still ride into their driveway and scoot
away quickly. I remember large station wagon vehicles with paneling (how
can you forget family vacations on the road). I remember toys like Liddle
Kiddle dolls, Sweet April, Dawn Doll, Derry Daring doll & motorcycle
(Evil Kneival's female version). My brother's hot wheels and matchbox cars,
Wacky Packs (collector cards with funny pictures of products such as Crest
toothpaste was called Crust toothpaste), MAD magazine, my first Teen magazine
in 1976 that my Dad got me, Bonnie Bell Lip Smackers (where they were giant
size), blue eye shadow (glad this phase is over).
Mysty
<cranwood@optonline.net>
Stamford, CT USA - Monday, February 27, 2006 at 14:45:28 (EST)
Hello. My name is Caroline Sparks. I am 17 years old and I love the 1970's
culture. I chose to do an essay on the pop culture of the 1970's and how
it ties into todays culture. I have alot of information but i need a primary
source. This means i need information from someone who actually lived in
the 1970's. I asked my parents but they can't give me what i need because
they were so young. If anyone out there can help me by E-mailing me some
info directly i would really really really appreciate it. Thank you all!
P.S. Robin your website really helped me too! I appreciate it! thanks! -c-
Caroline Sparks
<sparks5@ameritech.net>
IL USA - Thursday, February 23, 2006 at 13:28:56 (EST)
I was born in "59, but I don't even know where to start...tie-dye shirts...bell
bottom pants from Stan the Pants Man in Milford, MI(if anyone remembers him,
contact me please) with an extra triangle added to the lower inseam to make
the bottoms that much bigger around. My hair was straight as a board, but
I grew it to about mid-back. Platform shoes and clodhoppers. And all the
cartoons mentioned above. Some others were Courageous cat...Ricochet Rabbit
and quick-draw McGraw...Deputy Dawg...Pink Panther. I can go on forever.
Those from the Detroit area...remember "The Ghoul"; wearing sunglasses with
one lens gone and he used to flush frogs down the toilet until all the people
complained. He also had "King Croak", a giant frog not unlike King Kong,
cheesy horror movies
and if memory serves, that weird upside down face
with eyes on the chin singing bad horror songs. Bill Kennedy at the Movies
with only 1 commercial, if that many
and good movies too
Belvedere
Construction
Tyler 87100, we do good work! Some cartoons
I did not see above...The memories all you have let us read all but brought
tears to my eyes, and I am another of the many who wishes for those
times...respect for your elders and authority...and the general sense of
total abandoning freedom where the sky was the limit. Playing cops and robbers
on into the night(not too late though) and no one worried about missing
children...or locking your doors...leaving the keys in your car. Although
I must admit, I grew up WAY out in suburbia where the closest city was 40
miles away and the town population was under 5000. The games
Operation,
Clue, Parcheesi(?), and the obnoxiously loud game with the bubble with the
popping dice in the middle
bright orange race track
Hotwheels?
a
roll up toboggan
baseball leagues in the summers, bowling leagues in
the winter
I could go on and on
Good or bad, absolutely the best
times of my life, hands down. Thank You Robin!!!
David C. Beard
<dbeard147@sbcglobal.net>
Highland(Milford), MI USA - Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 23:15:12 (EST)
Growing up in the 70's was a memorable experience (although much of it is
now a little hazy!). I recall my first drive-in 'horror' movie: "Jaws". (Loved
it so much that I have become a horror flick junkie, although most of them
are now on DVD. The best place to eat for a budget-tight family was the A&W
drive-in. Nothing beat a Teen Burger with Onion Rings & a Root Beer,
served in a frosted glass mug\stein by a pretty young carhop, on a tray that
hung on the car window. For a good steak, there was also the Ponderosa or
the Bonanza restruant on Albert Street. Woolco was the big shopping attraction
in the north end of the city (had to love those burgers the in-store restruant,
the Red Grille, would serve when we stopped in while shopping!). Automotively,
it seemed like a '74 Plymouth Grand Fury was the car that could push a train
out of the way in the family vehicle class, and a Saturday afternoon\evening
at Wascana Park offered the drivers of 'muscle cars' like the '70 Plymouth
Roadrunner or Ford Mustang Mach I a chance to show off their ride. The 'outlaws'
of motorcycling in Regina were (and still are) the Appollo's M\C. On a summer
evening in Regina's downtown shopping\business area, the Harley-Davidsons
were lined up on the street or in the parking lot of any of the 'hot' nightspots,
like the Plains Hotel, the LaSalle, & the Eagles Club. Seeing those guys
riding hogs made me a lifetime fan of clubs like theirs, and I used to dream
of riding a big 74 when I was old enough to get my license. The AM radio
station that played the really GOOD rock & roll was 1300 CJME (now a
news talk network), and CKCK radio used to run Kasey Kasem's American Top
Forty on the week-end. (My personal favs were Melanie ('I Gotta Brand New
Pair of Rollerskates') & the soundtrack from 'Jesus Christ Superstar')
Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man, was working for Oscar Goldman,
Chico was working for the Man, & Fred Sanford was always telling 'Lizabeth
he was going to join her. Kojak was calling everybody Baby, Barney Miller
was commanding a squadroom of cops that were killing the viewer with laughter,
and Jim Rockford was driving the hell out of that gold Firebird. Cheech &
Chong, Richard Pryor, & George Carlin were making us laugh. President
Nixon was replaced by Gerald Ford in the USA, and Canada was trying to figure
out why Pierre Trudeau was in the Prime Minister's seat. Margaret Thatcher
had everything going pretty well in England, making the boys look bad. Twinkies
were big for killing the 'munchies', while Hostess Potato Chips promoted
them. Zig-Zag Rolling Papers, blacklight posters, bongs and roach clips were
all big sellers in the head shops, you could buy cigarettes without being
18, and the two smokables (maryjane & hash) were big with the 10-25 year
old demographic, as were Baby Duck wine, Molson Canadian beer & Jack
Daniels Old No.7. After that, the haze begins...
Trank
Regina, SK Canada - Friday, February 17, 2006 at 18:30:06 (EST)
It was so cool to find your website - I was born in 1959, and grew up in
Annapolis - not too far from you! I went to all those concerts at the Capital
Center - Jethro Tull,Heart, Billy Joel, Chicago/Beach Boys,Kiss,Hall &
Oates,etc. and those Toys for Tots concerts where we could see several bands
at one time. Your site is like reliving my past, with the greasers, nerds,
jocks - we had them at Annapolis High too. We went to Georgetown to the disco
once, but we mostly partied close to home - Boone's Farm Tickle Pink, vans,
Rocky Horroe Picture Show at midnight at the Glen Burnie Drive In ...and
when FW started, WPGC was top forty. I used to have a crush on the sportscaster
on channel 9, he had those big sideburns and long hair, his last name was
"Wolfe". I wore my POW bracelet faithfully, added the trim to the bottom
of my bell bottoms, big hoop earrings and hair parted down the middle. Never
missed the Sonny & Cher Show, and remember sneaking into the living room
to catch a glimpse of Laugh-In - it was "forbidden". Wow, the memories! I
love your site - thanks so much!
Marta
<martajones@comcast.net>
Annapolis, MD USA - Friday, February 10, 2006 at 16:42:30 (EST)
Hi, i was born 91, and im doing a project on the 70s, and i need facts. Your
web site had some great stuff. But if you can tell me more good sites like
this, i would be very happy. Please Email me back as soon as possible
Hershy man
<godguy56@yahoo.com>
AL USA - Wednesday, February 08, 2006 at 21:00:08 (EST)
site that I had totally forgotten about. I graduated in '79 and wish sometimes
that time had just frozen back then. I still do a lot of things from then
-- hairstyle("wings"), etc., but with a 16 yr old daughter - "You get the
picture!" Keep upi the great work, Robin. This site is now on favorite bookmark
list!!
Sharon
<goldenfire@jam.rr.com>
Clinton, MS USA - Sunday, February 05, 2006 at 13:42:36 (EST)
I was raised in New York in the 60's and i remember a toy that had a plastic
bulb at the end of a plastic stick in between then you would put a piece
of newspaper and slam it on the floor BANG! what a loud noise it made. It
was something i remember but don't seem to find reference about it in the
Web. just at http://www.inthe70s.com/generated/toys.shtml i found "POP CANE"
but i don't think that was the name. What about having a party with the friends
hearing a portable turntable music like the "mickey mouse club" or "the
archies"... EM-I-see Kay-E-Y EM-O-U-S-E
Washington
<mylife_now@qdice.com>
New York, NY USA - Monday, January 30, 2006 at 16:00:27 (EST)
The 60's and the 70's. Now you tell me of any other time in history that
people just can't get enough of. I was born in 1960 and would not want to
have been born any other time. The music and the fashions have been repeated
so many times that it makes you wonder has there really ever been another
decade. Just ask the youth of today. There are so many of them that would
love to have lived during a time of respect for parents and teachers that
they imitate it. There are more oldie stations on the radio than (you can
shake a stick at). Would'nt it be great if we could go back in time for just
a day? Oh well you never know there could always be a national 70's day.
Rock On.
Warren
<Wleejan@yahoo.com>
Terre Haute, IN USA - Sunday, January 29, 2006 at 00:07:21 (EST)
this is actually making me soo sad, so nostalgic for something I haven't
even experience. I was born in 1990 and am 15, but I would give anything
to have lived in the 60's and 70's. I wish I could have been there, lived
a carefree, easy, breezy, flowy life and be surrounded by beautiful music
and happenings. Don't get me wrong, I don't haaate these times, but everyone
is so superficial. Everyone is so involved with the wrong things, and I even
find myself with skewed priorities. People wear band shirts frmo the 60's
and 70's only beause they thing they're cool, and they don't even understand
the beauty and meaning these bands stand for! It makes me so sad. I just
saw the Stones in concert when they came to Montreal and the presence and
power they had, even now, made me feel the escence of the real rock and roll
days. I wish I could have been at woodstock, I wish I could have witnessed
the love and peace and music of Melanie, CSNY, the Incredible String Band,
Led Zeppelin... but here I am, stuck with Ashlee Simpson. All of you who
were there are SOO LUCKKYY!!
chloe
<wise_chloe@hotmail.com>
montreal, quebec canada - Wednesday, January 25, 2006 at 20:32:17 (EST)
Thank you sooo much Robin for this website. Like somebody else sort of mentioned,
I also found your website "through channels." I, too, was born in 1961, and
to echo the sentiments of everyone else, I want to go back in time and relive
those halcyon days. Those carefree, running through a field of wild flowers,
rolling in the grass, and just getting high on life days. Man that was a
"far out"* trip in and of itself!*[To quote John Denver!] A previous post
mentioned the radio stations they would listen to. I was born and raised
in the Chicago, Illinois area, and I remember listening to both Super CFL
and WLS. Did anyone else? {If anybody out there wants to listen to clips
from their favorite "rock jocks," or "super jocks," there's a great website
called REELRADIO.COM I have gone onto this site many times and its fun. Not
only do you get to hear the DJ's, but the commercials and sometimes, {depending
on the clips,} the songs as well}} Who else, from my neck of the woods, remembers
listening to Larry Lujack, alone, & then later on paired with Tommy Edwards
to do Animal Stories? "Uncle Lar" & "Little Tommy".} What about listenting
to John "Records" Landecker. {"Records truly is my middle name."} And Chicago
television: BJ and Dirty Dragon, Gigglesnort Hotel, Ray Raynor and his Friends,
{remeber Chelveston the duck?!} Garfield Goose and Friends and Bozo Circus.
{I know this show was shown in syndication, but many have considered this
version to have been {one of} the best, and it ran the longest. It was the
only Bozo show being made in the country before it went off the air.} Toys:
Dawn Dolls, Barbies, etch-a-sketch, clackers, {like many of you, my sister
had a pair, hers were green, I tried them too and they should have been
registered as lethal weapons!!.;} Whizzers, I loved those tops! I can remember
creating scratches on our rec room {basement} floor! The Dark Shadows game
{The one with the coffin scaffolds, skeletons, and a pair of fangs!}, KerPlunk!
{I think this might have been a 1960's game, oh well!!} Duncan Yo-yos, so
many toys. Liddle Kiddls, {I had one of the perfume one,s a locket one and
ones that could be used with their Hideout.} So many toys..... TELEVISION:
Dark Shadows {I loved Barnabas Collins!} Starsky and Hutch {I had a big crush
on Starsky I also had two posters of them in my room!} Love American Style,
The Partridge Family, Baretta, Kojack, Carol Burnette, All In The Family,
Good Times, Maude, Fantasy Island, Charlies Angles, Love Boat, {the last
three shows I've listed, I rarely watched.} Scooby Doo, Looney Tunes,
Shazam]\Isis, CBS' "In The News," Speed Buggy, Pebbles and Bamm Bamm,Clutch
Cargo, {"with his pals Spinner and Paddlefoot," This one was shown on Garfield
Goose and Friends.} Lancelot Link Secret Agent, Banana Splits, Josie and
the Pussycats, HR Puf N Stuff, Liddsville, Looney Tunes, Wacky Races, Perils
of Penelope Pitstop, Pebbles and Bamm Bamm, etc. CEREALS: Cap'n Crunch, Lucky
Charms, Rice Krispies, Coco Puffs, Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Boo Berry
and Fruit Brute, Alpha-Bits, Sugar Pops, Sugar Smacks, Sugar Frosted Flakes,
{any wonder we kids were so hyper! All that sugar!} Honeycombs, etc. Candy:
Bottle Caps, candy necklaces, Sweet Tarts, bazooka Bubblegum, Willy Wonka
Candy Bars, Slo Pokes, Jolly Rancher candy {Remember their Sticks. They were
fairly thick and lasted a long time! My favorite was the cinnamon!}, Milk
Duds, so many choices, so little time! The dentists sure appreciated the
business, though!! MUSIC: JOURNEY, STIX, CHICAGO, THE EAGLES, QUEEN, ELTON
JOHN, BILLY JOEL, KISS, DISCO, THREE DOG NIGHT, THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY, THE
CARPENTERS,John Denver, CAROLE KING, NEIL DIAMOND, {WHEN I WAS AROUND 21,22,I
WAS FORTUNATE TO HAVE SEEN HIM IN CONCERT AT THE CHICAGO THEATRE, WHICH IS
NO LONGER THERE. I AM STILL A FAN OF HIS.} I think I have rambled on long
enough. Again, thanks Robin for giving each one of us the chance to have
a place to stroll down memory lane!! And to those of you who wish you could
have grown up during this time, who are children of the 70's wannabes, if
you believe in past lives, then you may have very well lived during the Me
Decade already. Especially those of you who feel like you don't fit in with
the decade you are growing up in. To quote Barbra Streisand: "Memories, light
the corners of my mind, misty water colored memories of the way we were...."
PEACE, LOVE, FREEDOM, HAPPINESS, AND KEEP ON TRUCKIN"! STEPHANIE PS Please
feel free to e-mail me {E-MAIL ADDRESS: MAAHZOLEIGHUM@AOL.COM} so we can
recall those "Happy Days" and "Good Times!"
stephanie stavrooulos
<maahzoleighum@aol.com>
yorba linda, CA USA - Monday, January 16, 2006 at 18:34:10 (EST)
I was born in 1968 my best years were the 70's. sat morning cartoons statred
at8:00 and would go till Soul Train came on around 11:00 Tonka trucks were
steel snuffalopogus was still imaginary remember Krofft super show with Sigmund
the Seamonster witchiepoo and land of the lost H.R. Pufenstuff? banana seat
bikes and KISS. cars were big people were mellow, Leisure suits?? gotta love
it. see ya great site.
Mark C. Mancini
<Markz282002@yahoo.com>
palatine bridge , ny USA - Wednesday, January 11, 2006 at 20:36:32 (EST)
Being born in the heart of the 70's(1976), I was still walking around in
Garanimals, so I didn't really remember much. But reading the testimonials
of all of you who had shared makes me nostalgic for that time period as well.
I wish that I had been old enough to appreciate the disco era in full force.
But my memories lie in the early 80's and in terms of pop culture and tv,
I had caught the tail end of the 70's through reruns and nostalgia. As a
child of the 80's I too had watched the Banana Splits, Spiderman, Super Friends,
Scooby Doo, that cartoon with dick dastardly and mutley, as well as old school
sesame street reruns. I remember Captain Cosmic, Creature Feature, Dialing
for Dollars(local KTVU Channel 2 shows) and Schoolhouse rock. Through TV
I also enjoyed the Brady Bunch, Kung Fu and the 6 Million Dollar Man. Musicwise,
my mom used to shuttle us around in an old Plymouth Arrow and always had
the radio set to KYA radio...I believe that was am radio...and I would always
hear songs like America's "Tinman," Bread's "Make It With You," Carol King's
"So Far Away," and Lou Rawl's "You'll Never Find" just to name a few. Anyway,
as a 3d artist, the demoreel I am working on is about a cartoony 1970's teenage
girl very much like the age most of you were back in the 70's. I found this
site extremely helpful, and I thank you all for giving such detailed accounts
into your lives at the time. My animation is dedicated to all you teen girls
of the 70's.
Joseph
<joseph_ancheta@hotmail.com>
San Francisco, CA USA - Monday, January 09, 2006 at 03:41:28 (EST)
Hi everyone,Im just thinking back to 1978 when I got my first pair of "Six
Million Dollar Man" sneakers. it was so cool seeing Steve Austins face on
the front of my sneakers. Cooling out on the lawn hearing "follow you follow
me" by genesis.What a beautiful time and experience that was.Ill never forget
seeing for the first time "The Man from Atlantis" episode the "the Imp" when
Mark Harris had to to stop an under water devil(played by Pat Morita god
rest his soul) from touching people and turning them into children. What
innocence and beauty that was,sorry if I shed a tear folks! But the 70s,
including the above shows, had a mentality and beauty that is sadly missing
today.The music of England Dan, Jim Croche,Roger Whittikar will live for
ever in my heart and Im sure millions of others that love the 70s and who
frequently visit this web site. God bless and have peaceful 2006 Love Phillip
PHILLIP
<philbermuda@hotmail.com>
hamilton, bermuda - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 at 17:54:01 (EST)
omg! I was sitting on the couch, waxing nostalgic, when I decided to look
up "70's Cartoons" on the net. That's how I found this site. WOW! Thanks,
Robin. I would have loved to have started this if I was computer literate!
I loved the 70's!! For me, it 'was the best of times, it was the worst of
times'. Everything was so innocent then. My mom would give me a couple of
dollars to walk to the corner grocery and buy milk, bread, or whatever. When
I got home, she would let me keep the change. That seemed so cool to me.
I remember getting my first bicycle on my birthday. It was lime green with
high rise handlebars and a white banana seat ith 'groovy' flowers on it.
Only 1 speed - GO! The four of us would sit down and eat dinner together
after dad came home from work. Sometimes we would pack up the old Chevy station
wagon with home popped popcorn and cold Pepsi in the bottle (which we only
drank on special occassions!) and go to a drive-in movie. On the way we'd
stop at Jack-in-the-Box and pick up burgers and milkshakes. THAT was a big
deal. We hardly ever went to "fast food" places. If we went out to eat, it
was a nice restaurant because it was someone's birthday or the Grandprents
were visiting. And we KNEW how to bahave. We sat in our seats and said 'please'
and 'thank you'. Saturday mornings were the best! My favorite cartoons were
the Archies, The Groovy Ghoulies, Sid & Marty Krofft. OH! The names of
the Banana Splits were: Fleagle, Bingo, Droopy and Snorky. Right? My brother
made me watch "Dark Shadows" in the afternoons and I was terrified of vampires.
Although we were 3 years apart, we would 'play' together after school (after
our homework was done!). He would get his friends to be the 'Army' and my
friends and I were the 'nurses'. We played outside when the weather permitted.
We got to choose one or two TV programs per week to watch at night. I usually
chose The Partridge Family or The Brady Bunch. We played board games or card
games together in the evenings & did yard work or household projects
togehter on the weekends. In those days we were a family. I am thankful that
my parents have stayed married for over 47 years. That is a goal I will never
reach. I am grateful to have grown up in a time when we knew what it meant
to work for stuff we wanted. When "stuff" wasn't that important. When our
imaginations allowed us to travel the world, live in outer space, and turned
cardboard boxes into home furnishings or race cars. And yet there is so much
more..LP's, 8Tracks, Skate keys, Little Kiddles, Disneyland for a Gen Admission
of $5, watching the clouds float by, The Brady Kids cartoon, taking walks
at night.......walking throughthe park and reminiscing........
AJ
<msfluffy63@yahoo.com>
Waukee, IA USA - Tuesday, January 03, 2006 at 16:52:38 (EST)
The seventies are an incredibly colorful swirl in my mind.I came of age in
the 70's and enjoyed most of the freedoms and party pleasures the decade
offered. Born in '61, early memories from the seventies were taking rides
with my family to the University of Cincinnati to look at the crazy hippies
with their long hair and ratty bell bottoms. My Dad thought this was the
most hilarious thing he had ever seen, but in the back of my mind, I remember
thinking how cool they seemed - Especially the long hair and bell bottoms!
Does anyone remember the flag clothing fad? You could buy stars and stripes
bell bottoms,sneakers(I had a pair of those shoes) hippie hats,ties, and
just about anything else you could imagine.It was more of an anti-patriotic
statement at the time, but I think parents thought it was okay, because gee
wiz, it was the American flag. I also had a cool T shirt with a big yellow
smiley face on it that I wore almost every day one summer, along with the
obligatory cut - off jeans shorts. You made 'em at home, just cut up some
old jeans. If you bought yours in a store you were totally uncool.In the
winter we wore CPO jackets.They were like a heavy wool, lined, plaid shirt
in brown ,tan, rust or other Earth Tone colors .The only other "acceptable"
winter coat was an army jacket, or maybe an old pea coat.Hats for us were
the knit "dunsels" or beanies as we called them. Girls for a time wore similar
hats with extra long tails with poms on the ends. They're hats were usually
striped with a matching knit scarf. I also remember having what was probably
my coolest early seventies school outfit: Dark brown velvet bell bottoms
with gold button fly, a bell sleaved shirt with a wild paisley pattern, and
zip up short boots in two tone leather. Does anyone remember those crazy
men's, knit bathing suits that were a fad for a while in the 70's? These
things looked like something from the "Gay Ninties". They were usually striped
and had a tank top and short pants bottom, but all one piece. They got all
stretched out and looked ridiculous after 3 or 4 days of swimming. String
and crocheted bikinis for girls first showed up in the seventies too, along
with tube tops.Most cool chicks didn't wear bras, so if you were into nipples,
this was your time Man, those were the days. Sometime I'll have to stop back
and continue on my "trip" down memory lane. I haven't even touched on the
rock concerts, drugs, laid back, mellow, way cool, decent,tough, and other
stuff we did in the 70's. Don't mop that J! - later man.
Dan
<chiggerspook@juno.com>
Cincinnati, OH USA - Monday, January 02, 2006 at 23:55:22 (EST)
I was born in 1959, so I was a child in the 60's and a teen in the seventies.
I loved the early 70's more than anyother time in my life. I was in Jr. High,
in love with an older guy, a cute 8th grader named Mark, I was a cheerleader,
more than popular and had the world by the tale. Hard to imagine ever feeling
that confident..even at 13, but I was. I wore knee socks with
everything...shorts, skirts, dresses....even my hot pants (good lord!. I
had Hang Ten T-shirts in just about every color (remember the embroidered
feet in a corresponding color on the front???)> I had cork bottom clogs
and smocks and I loved the layered look. My hair was cut in a shag that would've
made Carol Brady's look tame. I loved AM radio and Bubble Gum/Pop music and
I saved up my money to buy a dollar 45 rpm of Michael Jackson's "Got To Be
There". There were the Adrissi Brothers and Cornelius Brothers and Sister
Rose...there was Mouth and McNeil and Gilbert O'Sullivan and John Denver
and Beverly Bremers and The Stampeders; The Carpenters and others groups
and singers and one hit wonders I can't remember. I tried to be a hippie
and put peace sign and ecology stickers on everything. I had a blue chambrey
work shirt that I embroidered on. I let my hip-hugger, elephant ear jeans
gray at the bottom and you weren't cool unless the hem had separated and
trailed off behind you for a few inches. I tripped on mine countless times.
I remember the National Lampoon Radio Hour and underground FM stations that
played deep cuts on albums. These stations had few advertisers save for a
few head shops, stereo stores, concert ticket venues and free VD clinics.
The jocks would get so stoned or sounded like it on the air and they'd all
talk in that cool way. I remember chokers and earth shoes and platform shoes
and high wasted dress pants and make yourself halter tops. I remember Ambergris
cologne and British Sterling (you could engrave a name on the bottle, remember??)
and going to the clothing store in my small home town in South Texas and
trying to find earrings even remotely resembling the fabulous ones Cher had
worn on the "Sonny and Cher" show from the night before. I remember being
a cheerleader and drawing up locker signs for the football players. I remember
my AM radio was on and so was Argent and Procol Harem and I remember the
wau those metal cased big magic markers smelled. I can't duplicate that smell
anywhere today. Anyway, thanks for letting me stroll down memory lane. I'm
46 now...soon to be 47, but those memories are always with me. I had so much
fun being a kid and everything was great until about age 15. Then I started
growing up--things got difficult and complicated and simply put, life happened
when I wasn't looking. When I was that age, all I wanted to do was grow up.
Now that I'm grown up, I'd give anything to be 13 again. I'd wear knee socks
with everything, slap a peace sign sticker on my notebook, rock out to my
AM radio and forget about debt and mortgages and be thankful that my biggest
problem was the Vesuvian-like zit forming on my chin.
Lack
<lkmm7129@hotmail.com>
Houston, TX USA - Wednesday, December 28, 2005 at 15:11:15 (EST)
I was born in 1964, so I was pretty much a youngster back in those days but
I still have alot of memories from the solid 70's-clothing, cars, peoples
attitudes, tv shows, movies, pop-culture, etc. Most of my older sibs were
in their teens and 20's by the 70's and some were out of the house, working
and partying in Madison Wisconsin. I remember their friends, and the things
they did for fun. How they partied, what was important, what WAS NOT IMPORTANT,
and the like. Oh how things have changed so! When I grew up and got married
my wife and I moved to Denver Colorado for a while. I worked with several
guys who were in their 40's and they used to tell me about the parties, pot
and music and times they had while working and hanging in towns and areas
like Boulder Colorado, and other small mountain towns. Man, I would give
ANYTHING, ANYTHING if we could return to those days. People don't have time
for anything anymore. Nothing is free, noone is shown how to do things just
for doing them or for free of charge. I look at the young kids moving into
my neighborhood today who are financing $45000 cars and suv's and have to
have the right clothes and items-and, they are barely 24 years old! They
will never know what those days were like. Going to college and having one
or two old flannel shirts in a closet, baggy cordoroy pants, and an old sweater
and bartending and waiting for your girlfriend to come in after your shift
so you can go party and listen to tunes with friends. Now, kids go to college
with Northface coats that cost $500.00.. drove mew Toyotas or Mazda's and
have $2000 laptops and carry their ubiquitos cell phones everywhere. We are
soooo dehumanized today! Oh how I wish for those days...
Greg Marshall
<Gregm999@ticon.net>
Evansville, wi USA - Monday, December 19, 2005 at 11:46:39 (EST)
Hi, I was born in 1989 and I'm 16 years old. Reading this site makes me really
sad. I love looking at pictures from the 60s and 70s and reading about those
years, thats how I found this page. All teens do now is talk on cell phones,
go to the mall, and try to get a bf or gf. No woodstock, no hitchhiking across
the country, no love, no peace, no hanging out and doing things that are
actually FUN. You guys are so lucky to have been born to live those times.
Even if it would mean I would be like 40 now, I don't care. I would do anything
to have lived then instead of being a teenager now. But I guess I'll just
have to deal with it :-P. Anyway this is a great idea for a website keep
it up. Johanna
Johanna
<forjohnny1940_1980@hotmail.com>
USA - Friday, December 16, 2005 at 20:20:20 (EST)