I was an army brat back in 1975. Lived in Heidelberg, Germany. Best times of my life. I remember thinking how cool I was smoking ciggeretts behind the bleachers, wearing an engineer hat made out of phoney suede and magic marker as eyeliner. I remember writing in Slam Books and make those paper things that you pick a number between 1 and 4 and you open it up. Then you read what someone wrote. Usually something nasty. I remember carrying my boombox (which was much smaller in those days) with me everywhere I went. I was into Wings, Foreignor and Abba. God I miss those days! I'm so glad I was born in the 60's! Thanks for your website. It really brings back memories! Heather
Heather Winkel <winkel.heather@dorseylaw.com>
Seattle, WA USA - Friday, March 08, 2002 at 17:43:30 (EST)

this site is bitchin!
radman <farout@toocool.com>
USA - Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 21:16:32 (EST)

70's was a time for sex. Yes there was alot of sex in th 70's!
Ocean Spray <70's_chick@yahoo.com>
kingston, ALB USA - Thursday, March 07, 2002 at 19:44:19 (EST)

Ahem! TetherBall (in the next message) should stand by itself. Just Tetherball. THEN Bicycle baskets.I didn't know line breaks would be discarded.
Kirby L. Wallace <kirby at wallaceinfo dot com>
Tulsa, OK USA - Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 02:37:40 (EST)

Grew up in England (and briefly in America) during the Seventies (Air Force brat). Things I remember and like to remember: If someone was running, they were "bookin'..." "Heatwave" was hot (Boogie Nights, Groove Line), but "dark and depressing" (to me - maybe it was just something going on at the time, but I remember being depressed listening to them). ABAA was hot and "uplifting, and upbeat." Dancing Queen still gets me up! WE WANT KISS! WE WANT KISS! WE WANT KISS! Alive and Alive II (later)! Gene Simmons' voice crack coming out of "God of Thunder" drum solo: EYE-EEE-EYE am the Lord of the Wasteland..." Socks with those colour stripes around the top. The first time I ever saw a pair of DENIM sneakers. And Sneakers that had that front toe curl-up thingie. Choppers! (And I mean the bicycle). Miami Dolphins an Pittsburg Steelers. Dunno why. Just seems they were it in the seventies. I don't even know if they did all that well. Tetherball Bikes with those front mounted baskets that EVERYONE rode to school. If you were really cool, you had rear sidemount baskets. Bike locks that were the chain with the tube-shaped roller number combo. Snakes (in America - Don't have em in England). Remember how much more wildlife there seemed to be? Lizards and scorpions, and HUGE mantises. FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!! Remember when your parents let you wander around wherever you wanted with only the "be home in time for dinner" command? Middle fo the day, after dark, whenever. We weren't afraid then. This is the saddest loss of all, and something I really wish I could give to my kids. But I think those days really are gone now. Drugs and Gangs were unheard of in the day. Or if they were, they were the problem of just one or two "bullies" who we all stayed away from anyway. Sad sad loss.
Kirby L. Wallace <kirby at wallaceinfo dot com>
Tulsa, OK USA - Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 02:33:40 (EST)

Forget Everything And Remember. The seventies were the most bitchin times i've had.
Teresa Green <treesrgreen@cyclopswarp.com>
- Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 18:41:31 (EST)

The Drugs. The acid was so much more potent.
Joesph Coel <sabbathkid@hotmail.com>
ON Canada - Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 18:31:25 (EST)

Robin!!! Right on! Groovy, Outta Site Web Pages! I'm a 70's kid and I STILL wear my Bell bottems, and my huge hoop earrings! I wore "Evening In Paris" perfum, (would LOVE to find a bottle if anyone has one) and my fav doll was Skiddle Kiddle, also would LOVE to find one. I still greet everyone with a peace sign! Rock On!!!
L. Beheler <YeScribe@aol.com>
Casar, NC USA - Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 00:21:57 (EST)

Robin: I believe I heard a mistake on the first episode of "that 80's show". One of the characters made a comment about velcro fasteners as a new thing. The show is slated 1984, I graduatd highschool in 72. Before I graduated a friend of mine had a coat that we thought was incredible. When he undid it we thought he was ripping his new coat to pieces. It was the then new item velco. I have seen many mistakes on that 70's show also. Eric wanted a cassette player for the station wagon real bad, but, at that time there was more available on 8 track, people of that time would have wanted an 8 track player more. someone really needs to be put on the writing staff to keep them straight. Sorry to burn your ears so long but believe it or not I have a big library of 8 tracks downstairs as well as a sears lp/cassette/8track/am/fmstereo player and it all still works.
John Williams <jaw1253@bellsouth.net>
Atlanta, Ga USA - Friday, January 25, 2002 at 23:27:30 (EST)

Your sight is fun! Im looking for info on the year 1977. What was the hit song? What was in fashion? What car waw hot at the time? What were prices like? How were people weraing thre hair back then? I'm working on a marketing project and would welcome any info you may have. Thank you so much.
S Greff <greffs4@aol.com>
Bismarck , ND USA - Tuesday, January 22, 2002 at 13:41:04 (EST)

thanks for the memories, keep up the great work!
Mick <iammick@aol.com>
houston, tx USA - Friday, January 04, 2002 at 01:57:09 (EST)

Yes, it was fuzzy wuzzy soap. The flowers were Dippity Glass. I found an instruction book for 50 cents at a goodwill store. Brought back many memories. Google Image Result for www.kconline.com/kurtkelsey/toys/img/fuzzywuzzy.jpg
More stuff:

Quick Draw Mc Graw, Woody Woodpecker, Wally Gator, Touche Turtle, Augie Doggie, Sherman and Peabody, Snagglepuss, Tennessee Tuxedo.

Car 54 Where are you, Soupy Sales, Dobie Gillis, Dating Game, My Favorite Martian, Gomer Pyle

"That frosty mug sensation." A & W ROOT BEER

"A-1 makes hamburgers taste like steakburgers." A-1 STEAK SAUCE

"Ace is the place for the helpful hardware man." ACE HARDWARE STORES

"Skim milk does not come from skinny cows" ALBA DRY MILK

"I can't believe I ate the whole thing!" ALKA-SELTZER

"Plop, plop, fizz, fiz, oh what a relief it is!" ALKA-SELTZER

"You're in good hands with Allstate." ALLSTATE INSURANCE

"Grapes, like children, need love and affection." ALMADEN

"Doesn't your dog deserve ALPO?" ALPO DOG FOOD

"Rest, keep warm and drink liquids" AMERICAN AIRLINES VACATIONS (1973)

"Tobacco is our middle name." AMERICAN BRANDS, INC.

"If man were meant to fly, God would have lowered the fares." AMERICAN COACH LINES

"Don't leave home without it" AMERICAN EXPRESS CHARGE CARD

"American Home has an edifice complex." AMERICAN HOME MAGAZINE

"A, B, C, D, E, ... Your public library has arranged these in ways that make you

cry, giggle, laugh, love, hate, wonder, ponder and understand." AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (1961)

"Reach out and touch someone." AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH (1982)

"See America at see level." AMTRAK

"The Power to Be Your Best." APPLE COMPUTER

"No bottles to break - just hearts." ARPEGE PERFUME

"Promise her anything, but give her Arpege." ARPEGE PERFUME (1945)

"Aunt Jemima makes mornings they'll remember." AUNT JEMIMA PANCAKES AND SYRUP

"You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine." CHARLES ATLAS

"We're number two. We try harder" AVIS RENTAL CAR (1960s)

"The ultimate driving machine." BMW AUTOMOBILES

"Next to myself, I like BVD best." BVD UNDERWEAR

"The Greatest Show on Earth." BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS

"Bayer works wonders." BAYER ASPIRIN

"Now your kids don't have to miss Monday Night Football because they're studying for a Tuesday morning exam." BETAMAX VIDEO RECORDERS BY SONY

"Victory won't wait for the nation that's late." BIG BEN CLOCKS

"Feel the Velvet" BLACK VELVET WHISKEY

"Tell someone you love about V.D. The health business, we're not in it for the money." BLUE CROSS/BLUE SHIELD HEALTH INSURANCE (1970)

"Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman?" BODY BRA BY WARNER'S

"Making smoking 'safe' for smokers." BONDED TOBACCO COMPANY

"If it's Borden's, it's got to be good." BORDEN, INC.

"When you've got it, flaunt it." BRANIFF AIRWAYS

"When you say Budweiser, you've said it all." BUDWEISER BEER

"Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars."

BUICK "Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick?" BUICK

"Equal Pay, Equal Time" BULOVA ACCUTRON WATCHES (1974)

"The mainspring in a Bulova is made to last 256 years or 146 leather straps - whichever comes first." BULOVA WATCHES

"Have it your way" BURGER KING

"So creamy it's almost fattening." BURMA SHAVE SHAVING CREAM

"Head for the mountains." BUSCH BEER

"What this commercial is trying to sell you won't make your breath any sweeter, your clothes any whiter or your acid indigestion any better.

It'll just make you more human." BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS (1972)

"The Penalty of Leadership." CADILLAC

"Calgon, take me away." CALGON TOILETRIES
Debbie <LOONY913@aol.com>
USA Friday November 16, 2001 at 3:21:13 (EDT)

Hi Robin, I hope you can help me. Since I was small I've had this song that I remember only the basics of taunting me. It was my favorite song in the mid 70's. It's NOT Billy Joel's "Just The Way You Are" but it's along the same premise. The lyrics are something like you don't have to change the way you wear your hair ((or something about pins in your hair)) He is telling her he loves her not the things she wears or the way she wears her hair. It's driving me crazy I have 4 DJ's pulling their hair out over this. I keep getting the tune mixed up with Pablo Cruise's "What you gonna do" because I thing both were popular aroung that time and would have been played on the same station. HELP please if you can. Even if you just give me a whole bunch of maybe's songs & Artists I would appreciate it. I was born in 1973 so it has to be about 1975-1979 air play time. Thanks for your help if you can. Raven <TranquilRain@aol.com>
USA- Wednesday, November 14, 2001 10:31 PM (EDT)

Hi, I am looking for the makers of Chum Gum? Thought you might have an idea where? when? and how I might find it. I am 49 years old. (50 next month) I used to get this gum for Halloween when I was a kid. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,
Glenn Hyatte <hyatte@home.com>
USA - Friday, November 09, 2001 4:07 PM (EDT)

I would really like to find the original song to the cartoon HR Puffinstuff if you could possibly direct me in which way to go I would greatly appreciate it Thank You Todd Shotts

todd j shotts <trmshotts@csonline.net>
USA - Sunday, November 04, 2001 8:32 PM  (EDT)

Robin, came across your sitedoing a search for of all things.....a tasty little treat called shake a puddin.......don't ask me why a very vague memory from my childhood......in light of all of the horrible things happening since 9/11/01 I just wanted to be able to return to a safe place.I am a 37 year old man with two small children......thanks for giving me a moment of emotional security....my wife thinks I am nuts because I saved everything from my childhood. your sight helped I will be back often....If you feel like writing please do. Tony
Tony <toc36@hotmail.com>
USA - Monday, October 22, 2001 6:33 PM  (EDT)

Interesting site you have! I graduated high school in 1977 in Florida!...Live in Arkansas now..(job related)..Remember the bumper sticker "Let's Boogie" With a dude striding beside the caption? I am looking for one or even a picture..I was hoping you could help me out!...Or at least try to remember the colors of it. I searched the www best I could...at least I found your fabulous site!! Bet you loved the Caddy!! I had a 64 Plymouth with pushbutton transmission selectors...and then a 69 camero...Take care of yourself...feel free to reply...(BTW...I was born in July 59!) Sincerely yours,
Bill Roberts <willo@ipa.net>
AK, USA - Sunday, September 02, 2001 12:43 PM

Had a lot of fun on your site, and it bought back some great memories. I lived on Long Island till I was 10 (in '69) and we also had a milkman driving one of those great Divco milk trucks. He also sold Charles Chips, and we had a few cans around ourselves. Yup, wish I still had a can now, too! Going back to your site now to have a bit more fun! Cheers,
Jim Gibbons <AVNjimg@aol.com>
USA - Saturday, August 04, 2001 3:46 AM  (EDT)

Dear Robin, Am looking for a picture from the 1970 commercial with Iron Eyes Cody . Can you help find it please Thanks
Sully <SULLY1142@aol.com>
USA - Tuesday, July 31, 2001 3:19 PM  (EDT)

I live in a world of the 70's even with the current conditions surrounding me in a cacoon of school shootings, road rage, air rage, and 15 minute wannabees who will step on you to get what ever they can. I was lucky to be born in 63, the year Harvey Ball designed the first happy face to improve work relations, (who died just 2 saturdays ago). I grew up with bubblegum music , go-carts, dune buggies, Partridge Family, Cowsills, and playboy under my bed. I had a great childhood and try to keep some of those memories. I paint very 70's related pictures of butterflies, mushrooms and other colorful psychedelic art, in my mind I am quite good and would never entertain any thought to go out on the open market to sell any of it, even though I am a baby boomer( on the cusp since it ended in 1965) I don't think like the normal boomer, im not out to get rich, or buy memorabilia and keep them in packages because they might be worth something later on. I am more genuine than that, I grew up in a time when we wanted to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, which is my favorite commercial. I would like to talk to you more, anyone who loves the 70's is'nt all bad. Any hope that we could still do that.

Mark Baer <baerberg@myexcel.com>
USA - Tuesday, April 24, 2001 6:50 PM  (EDT)

I loved your site-I remember some of the things you mentioned.And I still like almost everything from the 60's and 70's. Curtis Cowan/Legendary Rockers Prom. www.cableregina.com/users/ccowan
curtis <cowan>
vancouver, BC Canada - Monday, April 16, 2001 at 21:30:23 (EDT)

Great site. I remember wearing those turtle necks with the zipper that went all the way up and had a big ring hanging from it,with bell bottoms,a down vest and cloggs...that was kool!!!!
Dan <celtic65_2000@yahoo.com>
USA - Friday, April 13, 2001 at 00:09:23 (EDT)

Forgive me if this gets wordy, but the 70's were and are my favorite decade.Even though I was born in 1969, I still seem to remember most of the '70's, I remember "Day by Day" playing on the radio, an early TV broadcast of "Deliverance", and this commercial from when plastic soda bottles first came out which showed this lady knocking a 2-liter bottle off her table or counter and she gets this shocked look on her face, then the bottle is shown in slow-motion landing on the floor and bouncing back. Among my favorite shows were ZOOM, Love American Style, New Zoo Revue, Electric Company, James at 15(and 16), a short-lived series called Mulligan's Stew, Uncle Smiley(more of an inbetween show than an actual series, I think it was indigenous to the Philadelphia area, but if anybody else remembers it please write me), and a short cartoon called The Most Important Person. I used to love the Budweiser commercials from that period("When you say Bud"), Lowenbrau("Here's to Good Friends"), the commercial with the Indian(Iron Eyes Cody) where he walks through a trash-ridden city and a driver throws a bag of trash at his feet and a single tear comes down his face, Juicy-Fruit(with the zebra), the Tootsie-roll tootsie-pop commercial(wise old owl, how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie-roll tootsie pop? ah..1, ah..2, ah..3 crunch, 3), Rice-A-Roni, The Coke commercial where a multi-ethnic group gathers into the shape of a Christmas tree with everyone holding a candle. I enjoyed(and still do) the music of Boston, Kansas(does anybody remember "Heroes" with Henry Winkler and Sally Field? I think "Carry On, Wayward Son" was in the soundtrack), Queen, Wings, The Commodores, Stevie Wonder, Minnie Riperton, Phoebe Snow, and I even won the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack on vinyl at this game somewhere along the Jersey shore(unfortunately damaged during a move), as I'm writing this the radio is playing "More, More, More" by The Andrea True Connection, the first 45 I ever owned was either "Dancing Queen" or "Fly Away". Some movies about the 70's I like are Boogie Nights, 54, and Spirit of '76(should be required watching for anyone who calls themselves a 70's afficianado). I've been collecting this series of CD's(sorry, I can't find them on 8-track or vinyl) called "Super Hits of the 70's Have A Nice Day" which are put out by Rhino and have 12 songs(10 on cassette) each because I would like to have a comprehensive collection of 70's music, there is also a similar set for Soul Music of the 70's(no, I don't get a royalty for saying that). I could go on but I think I would have to rent space so I guess I'll leave it at that for now. I salute anyone who tries to keep the 70's alive, thanks for your site. In the words of Don Cornelius "Peace, love, and soul". Keep on truckin'.
John <qguru@yahoo.com>
Eagle, PA USA - Saturday, April 07, 2001 at 19:50:29 (EDT)