The
Feel,
The
Fads,
The
Era,
The
Fashions
--The
70's!
 Have
a Nice day!
Check out my super duper,
jumbo list of 70's Party Foods!
(Due to popular request!)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
...another one of my 70's addictions!
In case you can't read these tickets,
I saw The Who (76'), The Beach Boys (75')
and Aerosmith (77') for $7.75 at the
Cap Centre, Landover, MD!
Boo hoo. Dec. 16, 2002 :(
Cap Centre Destroyed!
Fast Facts about the 70's.
Each year there are hundreds of confirmed
cases of Legionnaire's Disease, which was first
identified in 1976 when 29 people attending an
American Legion convention in Philadelphia died.
Did you know that the 70's was the advent
of the jumbo jet, VCR's and tennis as a
major spectator sport?
Which came first? Ray Steven's song;
"The Streak" or the actual streakers themselves?
This is the famous "hat picture". UK -
74'.
Who remembers
Fire Sign
Theatre?
Books I remember from the 70's:
-
Go ask Alice (also a movie, starring
William Shatner - 1972)
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The Outsiders, SE Hinton
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Be Here Now, by Ram Dass
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach
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"Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
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The Prophet, Carlos Casteneda
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"The Happy Hooker" by Xaviera Hollander (!)
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"Sweet Savage Love" by Rosemary Rogers
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Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"
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"Fear of Flying" by Erica Jong.
Passages April 2001
"Happy Face" creator H.R. BALL, 79, who gave the world the smiling,
yellow visage known as the "Happy Face," has died of liver failure. He saw
his creation come into being in 1963, when he was working for a Massachusetts
ad agency and one of its clients, an insurance company in the middle of a
merger, asked him to come up with a way to soothe employees. He claimed to
have been paid only $45 for the drawing, which he never trademarked. The
logo has appeared on millions of items ever since, including a U.S. postage
stamp.
(From People Magazine)
More info here:
U.S.
creator frowns at Frenchman's trademark
Bob Marley
This beautiful piece of artwork of
Bob Marley was created by
Kerstien
M. of Sweden.
Please visit her site to see more hand drawn
images of pop icons.
(Photo is shown here by permission.)
Wolfman Jack! There are many sites
devoted to Jack. After listening to him for years,
we finally saw what he looked
like in
American Graffiti in 1974.
Going to a 70s party?
70s
Costumes!
I came across your site by chance when looking for some 70's pop art
on google. My father was a QB at the University of Maryland in the 60's and
was considered a very sharp dresser in the 70's when he played in the NFL
and WFL.
I enclosed a photo taken of us in 1971, I think you will get a nice
laugh out of this. He was playing in the CFL and all the black players had
the kind of suits they wore in the film Superfly. My father had some custom
made for himself and used to wear them all over town, even to the grocery
store. NFL Films actually used this photo in one of their movies because
it just summed up what a player from the 70's dressed like if he was
cool.
Take care,
Jimmy Corcoran
Drum roll please.....
....From a box in my closet that I haven't opened for at least fifteen years...I
found and now present to you:
...a picture of my "Pet Rock" training Guide!
Bad Stuff that happened in the 70's
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Viet Nam
-
Watergate
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Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant
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Gas Shortages
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Kent State University
4 Students killed in a protest by the National Guard
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Reverend Jim Jones Cult
Mass Suicide at Jonestown Guyana
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Israeli Olympians killed
-
Elvis Presley Dies in 1977.
 Dr.
Sholls
We Wore:
Peasant Tops (early 70's) , Chain belts, Pea coats, Tight
Levi Jeans, Jeans with fringe around the bottom, Over Alls, Elephant Bells,
Painter Pants, Platform Shoes, Earth Shoes,
Desert Boots, Clogs, Dr. Sholls, cheap Flip Flops,
Army Jackets, Black High-Tops. Loves Baby Soft Perfume, Bonnie Bell Cosmetics,
Watermelon and Bubble Gum Lip Gloss. Heaven
Sent Perfume. Guys wore English Leather and ? Mid 70's: Halter Tops, Tube
Tops, Thin plucked eye brows. Mirrored Sunglasses. Shag hair cuts.
We called our bangs 'wings', as in "Gotta get my wings cut". Bad hair day?
No problem, just wear a bandana. Farrah's style was all the rage.
 
Dorky Clothes: Polyester Suits and Leisure Suits.
It is only fitting that I should end this page with this:
These
platforms
shoes were my favorites back in 1976. My mother's boyfriend (now husband)
Rick, was a professional photographer. I can still hear him in my head saying:
"Rob, how can you walk in those things!"
A big "thank you" to Rick for taking the pic and memorializing this uber
snap shot of the 70's.
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Sign of the Times:
The $100,000 bar came out
Field Parties!
"ROCK ON!!"
Far Out, Man!
Flower Power
What's up, Dude?
Sit on it!
Que Pasa?
Say What?!
Right On!
What's
Happenin'?
Neato!
Cool
Keep on Truckin'
Groooovy, Man
At Rock Concerts,
everyone lighting
a match.
Shag hair cuts
Shag Carpeting
Platform Shoes
Avocado green
& harvest gold
appliances
Bean Bag chairs
Stridex pads and
Clearasil
Using "sealing
wax"
Using Sun-in on
your hair
Beatlemania
Powdered hair
cleaner called
Pssssssst! (Made
your hair dirtier)
Debut of Nacho Cheese Doritos
Guys wore long
hair
Cruisin'
Nixon
Watergate
Deep Throat
Retreads
Dorothy Hamil
Pet Rocks
Mood Rings
Gallagher
Hey, Foxy Lady!
George Carlin
The Weiner
Mobile
Black Power
Black Panthers
Civil Rights
Womens Lib
Gloria Steinem
Roe V Wade
Billie Jean King
Helen Reddy, I am Woman
Tiger Beat & 16 Magazine
Sun tanning lotion
that turned you
orange
Mini-Bikes
Farrah Fawcett
Don Kirchner's
Rock Concert
Quadraphonic
Stereos
Nothing Books,
Wanna make
something of it?
Wolfman Jack
Vinyl Records!
8- Track Tapes
Streakers!!!
Drugs, Sex and
Rock 'n Roll!!!!
Intro of cassette
tapes
CB Radios, that's
a big 10-4!
"Pardy Hardy!"
Greasers
Freaks
Jocks
Nerds
Disco
"Do the Bump"
"Shake your Booty"
Saturday Night Live
Jimmy Carter, a peanut farmer, was president.
Billy Beer
Ding Dong! Avon calling!
Shaklee Vitamins
Amway
Distributors
Howard Cosell
China Syndrome
Casey Kasem
Dick Clark
American
Bandstand
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