I grew up in the Seventies discussion
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Flared jeans with fringes, crombie coats, nylon school shirts, clarke's shoes, midi and maxi skirts, pineapple chunks, pipe-smoking...
I grew up around Boulder, Colorado. In the seventies, it was THE hippy capitol of the world. You could drive by most any street corner and see someone light up there pipe while they waited to cross. There was less fear, less worries, less care. There were also a lot of out of work hippies :)
I think I'm crazy in love with this group. Thanks for the invite, Tom.I can sum it up in two words:
THE MUSIC.
The music is right - and we took it all for granted! But there was some serious rubbish around as well. I see we have British and Americans in this group, there are going to be some terms of reference that don't cross over - quite a lot in fact. Whoever mentioned pineapple chunks, that took me right back, I can taste them now - is that the Bunny on a Bike lady?
Hello! What about pear drops? I hated them. Think my favourite, after pineapple chunks, was nut brittle. It was SO cheap and hard as nails, when you bit into it you wondered whether it was the sound of breaking teeth or sugar snapping.
Bell bottom hip huggers and crop tops or halter tops, cinnamon toothpicks or cinnamon oil from the drugstore, 8 track tapes, water from the tap (you didn't need bottled water then), drive in movies, drug store sodas and malts, juke box and quarters to play my favorite songs..and of course..The Music..the 70's music was the very best of all!!
I had a pair of bell bottom blue jeans with Shaun Cassidy's face on them. My favorite outfit was when I wore them with a plaid shirt that sported a giant strawberry. And I rode a yellow bike with a big white basket. Oh, yeah.
Shaun Cassidy for sure Melodie but I had shirts with his picture and of cours the posters all over my walls. Vinyl albums, 8 tracks (why did they get rid of these?), Playing outside especially in the summer, Having my own phone # for my room, Riding my bike all over town, Dinner at the same time every night with my whole family there, Waiting for my favorite movies to come on TV every year (Wizard of Oz anyone?)and everyone in town watched the same thing!
Oh and Record Stores! I grew up in Burbank, California and we had a store called Licorice Pizza nearby and everyone went to pick out 45's!
Elena wrote: "Shaun Cassidy for sure Melodie...You two must be a few years younger than me. David Cassidy was so much cuter than Shaun. To be honest, though, my first big TV crush was Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees.
Well I was more of a kid in the seventies and more of a teen in the 80's. So Shaun was definitely my first real crush. Sigh...
David WAS cuter than Shaun, but I was young and dumb. **sighs deeply, shakes head**
LOL Yikes, I'm starting to realize how old I really am...
I sneaked in here . It's all your own fault for sending an invitation but I actually grew up in the sixties. I was in my 20's in the seventies looking back with fondness on my music. Th seventies obviously still had all the sweets I'd enjoyed though I had to develop a taste for the pear drops and I think my acid drop spangles wee on their way out-shame. But for me, the seventies was bringing about a different style of clothes than the sixties. Bigger collars on shirts arrived and my hippie days were fast disappearing along with most of my music.
Jenna wrote: "LOL Yikes, I'm starting to realize how old I really am..."Not at all!
Graduated high school in 1970. It was a magical time, still old fashioned, yet emerging into a new movement. One that would change the world as our parents knew it. The music, the hippies, love, love, love. Looking back, I think it was a a time of marvelous adventure and possibility.
I graduated high school in 1972. Want I remember best is the music. I lived the music. I wore bell bottoms, midriffs or halter tops. I went to Penn State but like the song I graceless to a beat of a different drummer. Those were the good old days.
Gotta love that spellcheck it changed traveled to graceless.
Nancy wrote: "I graduated high school in 1972. Want I remember best is the music. I lived the music. I wore bell bottoms, midriffs or halter tops. I went to Penn State but like the song I graceless to a beat of ...""WE ARE (boom boom) PENN STATE (boom boom)
Lock Haven University here.
I graduated in 1977..I was into Peter Frampton, KISS, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon..etc.
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I loved the TV programmes :- Banana splits, wacky racers, Clangers, Mr Benn..ets.
Has anyone got any photographs from the Seventies that they can add ?
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Pineapple chunks yes forgot all about them Ooooooo
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What is the number one iconic symbol / item of clothing / photo / song / game, of the brilliant Seventies ?
There are so, so many..it is hard to choose, isn't it? Platform shoes? I remember wearing platform sandals with my hip hugger bell bottoms.
Bohemian Rhapsody-QueenHey Jude- Beatles
Hotel California-Eagles
Stuck in the middle with you- Stealer's Wheel.
With Cat Stevens, The Bee Gees,Hot Chocolate. Meatloaf, Fleetwood Mac, ZZ Top, so many sixties stalwarts about and some fantastic new acts from the 70's it's hard to define the decade with a song but I'd say Queen had to be the greatest thing to happen to the music scene.
For me it has to be Roxy Music the most innovative band ever. Bryan Ferry was the king of cool and invented a new style where guys could dress up and be different.
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I was young in the 70's, but when I think about music, I think of lots of people and songs. Leif Garrett (my cousin LOVED him), Kiss, David Bowie, especially. Gosh, Olivia Newton John, Gloria Gaynor, Andy Gibb, and the BeeGees were HUGE. My mother loved Christopher Cross and Leo Sayre. I have a lot of 70's music on my i-pod today, actually. A few of the above mentioned like Bowie, but Anita Wood, Chaka Khan, Parliament Funkadelic, Al Stewart, and, of course...various disco. I am not ashamed to admit I still have my favorite disco songs! haha
Tom wrote: "Best song for me - Waterloo Sunset not sure of the release date ?" summer 1967
Tom wrote: "Question !What is the number one iconic symbol / item of clothing / photo / song / game, of the brilliant Seventies ?" Starsky's leather jacket
the most iconic things of the seventies are - Starsky&Hutch and Dallas.
Haha! Starshy and Hutch was epic! How about the original Battlestar Galactica? (Yes, I was a Science geek even then. **says proudly**)
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Could someone pls add a few photographs from the Seventies
I thought Starsky was sooo cool, especially with the car. Embarrassed to say when my husband and I saw Paul Michael Glazer in person a few years ago my husband blurted out "Starsky!" I pretended like I wasn't with him. Lol.
I remember having a 'Hutch' type cardigan made. It didn't hang as well on me as it did on him.
Simon wrote: "Tom wrote: "Question !What is the number one iconic symbol / item of clothing / photo / song / game, of the brilliant Seventies ?" Starsky's leather jacket"
Nah. David Cassidy's pookah beads.
Hey - best hair of the 70's? Either David Cassidy or Farrah Fawcett.
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What was great about the seventies was the fashion. Orange crushed velvet trousers, pink suede boots, lime green eye shadow and metallic green platform boots. I broke the heel of said boots, tripped and slid down the stairs of Charing Cross tube station, taking my heel with me! I was already grown up in the seventies. Does being a teenager constitute growing up?And I used to have the old tranny stuck to my ear under the blanket. I was into goldfish too and T.Rex. Loved Pictures of Matchstick Men by the Quo - the only thing they did that I liked. Oh and mum and dad bought a Radiogram - do you remember radiograms?
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The first single to be played on my dad's radiogram was 'Foot Tapper' by The Shadows - magic! This was followed by 'Bits and Pieces' by the Dave Clarke - oh dear. But I think they were 60s. Trouble remembering, it was such a long time ago.Loon trousers. Patchwork skirts. All things velvet.
Hey, what about CB's - and good ol' boy, trucker lingo?
Jenna wrote: "Hey, what about CB's - and good ol' boy, trucker lingo?"Yes! I loved talking on the CB! So much fun!
That's a big 10-4. Catch ya on the flip-flop. We gone - bah-bye...What was your handle?
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Jenna wrote: "That's a big 10-4. Catch ya on the flip-flop. We gone - bah-bye...What was your handle?"
I can't even remember! You?
