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Posted: 9/21/2014 11:23:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: $0.25 gasoline (circa 1972). I remember watching my Dad fill up our old '66 Ford Ranch Wagon with regular (there was no such thing as unleaded at that time) for $5. Probably around 1970 or so. That ended quickly in 1973. |
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Posted: 9/21/2014 11:24:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And roller rinks. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: mussle cars and drive-in theaters And a Led Zeppelin that was still intact. |
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Posted: 9/21/2014 11:26:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The decade that will go down as the best ever.  |
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Posted: 9/21/2014 11:28:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In 1971, my two friends and I drove from Buffalo to Ft Lauderdale in my Volkswagen Beetle. We crossed the FL state line in 26 hours and gas was .26 a gallon. I still have the receipt for that VW, bought brand new at a dealership for $1895.00. -Cigarettes were selling around .25-.50 a pack in the machine. -We hitchhiked everywhere. I went to college in Canada and regularly used to hitch a ride home from Ottawa, sometimes right in front of the border crossing between Canada and New York. -I worked in bars during the '70s and disco or no disco, that was a great time to be doing that! -Speaking of Buffalo, OJ Simpson was one of America's most admired sports celebrities. In Buffalo, his status was close to royalty. Gotta think of more when I'm off from work. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: $0.25 gasoline (circa 1972). In 1971, my two friends and I drove from Buffalo to Ft Lauderdale in my Volkswagen Beetle. We crossed the FL state line in 26 hours and gas was .26 a gallon. I still have the receipt for that VW, bought brand new at a dealership for $1895.00. -Cigarettes were selling around .25-.50 a pack in the machine. -We hitchhiked everywhere. I went to college in Canada and regularly used to hitch a ride home from Ottawa, sometimes right in front of the border crossing between Canada and New York. -I worked in bars during the '70s and disco or no disco, that was a great time to be doing that! -Speaking of Buffalo, OJ Simpson was one of America's most admired sports celebrities. In Buffalo, his status was close to royalty. Gotta think of more when I'm off from work. Speaking of cigarettes, there were still commercials for them on TV.  |
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Posted: 9/21/2014 11:31:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ahhh the 70s… America was in decline. We "lost” Vietnam. Nixon was forced to resign. Our economy sucked. (Nixon and Ford were both big on government control of the economy.) We had wage and price controls and gas lines. Then we hit rock bottom and elected Jimmy Carter. So we had more gas lines and an "energy crisis” where we were running out of energy. It was a Federal law that buildings couldn’t be cooled below 78 in the summer or warmed above 68 in the winter because we needed to save energy. (It didn’t apply to homes, and grocery stores got a cooling exemption on the grounds that they had to use more energy to keep their freezers running.) We also got a nanny state 55 mile per hour MAXIMUM speed limit on all roads. We had an Italian dress up like an American Indian and cry over litter. Fair enough because the sides of roads were used like the city dump by too many people. The pull tops from cans were everywhere. Cutting your heel on a pop top wasn’t just a misunderstood Jimmy Buffet lyric. The Bicentennial was a big deal but most folks knew America’s best days were behind her. The Commies were taking over slowly and we couldn’t stop them. Drug abuse was rampant. The drinking age in most places was 18 and drunk driving laws weren’t heavily enforced. Jimmy Carter gave us a misery index and malaise and a bunch of hostages being held by Iranians. Carter’s big accomplishment was in promoting peace between Israel and the Palestinians… Yea, you can see how that worked out. Yes, it was a great time for Liberals. They were on the verge of seeing their goals accomplished. The destruction and enslavement of the United States to Communist tyranny. Then a funny thing happened. Ronald Reagan got elected, turned the nation around, rebuilt our military, and the Soviets collapsed. It took the Left nearly 30 years to recover from that blow to their agenda. Spot on. |
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Posted: 9/21/2014 11:32:03 PM EDT
[#6]
Really bad clothes fashion.
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Posted: 9/21/2014 11:34:25 PM EDT
[#7]
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Jimmy Carter, the only president almost as bad as Obama. He wasn't anywhere near as bad as Obama. |
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Posted: 9/21/2014 11:36:31 PM EDT
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He wasn't anywhere near as bad as Obama. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Jimmy Carter, the only president almost as bad as Obama. He wasn't anywhere near as bad as Obama. Yeah, Jimmie was just incompetent, Obama is a traitorous, commie, Quisling. |
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Posted: 9/21/2014 11:38:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah, Jimmie was just incompetent, Obama is a traitorous, commie, Quisling. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Jimmy Carter, the only president almost as bad as Obama. He wasn't anywhere near as bad as Obama. Yeah, Jimmie was just incompetent, Obama is a traitorous, commie, Quisling. For all his condescending sanctimony, Jimmy didn't actually hate America. He just thought he was better than everyone else, and so he tried to make all Americans be as good a person as he was. Obama has nothing but contempt for America and the average American. |
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Posted: 9/21/2014 11:40:29 PM EDT
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Humn. Born in '67. Bicentenial was great. Parents got divorced in '77. I got stuck living with my mom and 2 sister's at my Grandma's house...... Too much estrogen.... I moved out ! I spent a year living on the front porch on the porch swing with a surplus sleeping bag. One whole year ! In Jersey ! All through winter and I was fine....... Baby sat, cut lawns, shoveled snow and used my $$ to buy model cars, beer, and smokes. At 12 ! Try doing that today !
The other thing. NO INTERNET ! You couldn't google anything so if someone said aliens landed on the moon you did not have the abilty to find out for yourself. You either believed it or had a bullshit meter that was off the charts. THAT really seperated the wheat from the chaf. It was an era of tall stories, huge lies and the exploitation of the gullible.
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Posted: 9/21/2014 11:54:05 PM EDT
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Chalk wheeled skate boards. BMX racing without helmets. Off-road racing without the BLM being involved in every thing. Out board racing boats with horns not mufflers. (I still want to find one of those old boats and run it across a local lake at a high rate of speed
 ) You could sleep in the back window of the car on a long trip for two reasons. 1 no seat belt laws, 2 cars were big enough. You could play all day with friends from sun up to sun down even if you had to ride your bike all the way across town. 10 cent candy bars. Grandmas Plymouth Fury with the blinker indicator on the fender. 49.9 gas. Green shag carpet. Full serve gas stations. Teachers that could beat your a$$. Jaws.
A few things I remember. |
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Posted: 9/22/2014 12:00:18 AM EDT
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Porsche and Ginger Lynn pornstars from the 80's |
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Posted: 9/22/2014 12:04:27 AM EDT
[#13]
I'm also an 83'er
. I did many of the same things biked all around my neighbor and ventured out beyond, played and goofed around at the neighborhood creek stayed played in construction sites  and stayed out till right before dark when it was time to be home. Good times.
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Posted: 9/22/2014 12:11:53 AM EDT
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My first bike was one of these: http://www.marblesmotors.com/images/Bikes%20for%20Sale/BRXR7501.jpg Then came the Yamaha YZ 80, the one to have! (My parents saved my life and never bought me one) |
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Posted: 9/22/2014 12:27:14 AM EDT
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Playing until the street lights came on and not having to worry about a chimo following you. No helmets, Mr. Rags clothing, REAL arcades, SUPER cheap firearms, Halloween and the 4th of July were EPIC. You could go to the fireworks stand and as long as you had cash, they would give you whatever you wanted. Halloween had kids out everywhere. You saw guns in the back windows of pick up trucks at schools and no one cared. No one would wear a seat belt in the car and I remember riding on the floor at my mothers feet in our 71 mustang. Cheap gas and muscle cars were everywhere. The cartoons were actually good also. Wonderful world of Disney followed by Mutual of Omaha's Wild kingdon. Then there was Star Trek and The hulk. Families would actually sit together and be excited about what was coming on TV. And it was when Rock and Roll was actually rock and roll. I could go on and on about the good things. But we had one of our worst presidents, economy was in the shitter and drug use was prolific. |
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Posted: 9/22/2014 12:29:25 AM EDT
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I turned 18 in '76, like several others here. In the '70s going to a movie meant a drive-in. Here in Fort Worth we had 5 or 6 drive-ins and Dallas had more. Yes children, a beaver in it's natural state has fur. Men did not "manscape" their chest or anything else. Cars were rated for horsepower, not mpg. I remember television stations signing off for the night at midnight. They came back on the air around 5 or 6am. There was no internet, personal computers or cell phones, and I bet we were happier than the kids I see today. When friends went out for pizza we talked to each other, not texting, taking selfies or updating our status. |
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Posted: 9/22/2014 12:35:39 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/22/2014 12:37:02 AM EDT
[#18]
Surplus from the VN War.
Aloha, Mark |
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Posted: 9/22/2014 12:41:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There was no internet, personal computers or cell phones, and I bet we were happier than the kids I see today. When friends went out for pizza we talked to each other, not texting, taking selfies or updating our status. I think thats what I miss most. If you needed to get ahold of someone, you picked up a land line and started spinning the dial OR you just showed up at their house. You didnt have 9 different devices in the house making a myriad of diffrent beeps everytime something happened. And if kids were in their room it was to listen to a record or they were in deep trouble. Being sent to your room was a discipline tool. Not like it is now where a 10yo has a flat screen and a gaming device and wont move a muscle for 12 hours other than his thumbs on a controller. "Social networking" meant you went OUTSIDE and rode your BMX around with your buddies till it was dark out. And people had manners back then also. |
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Posted: 9/22/2014 12:45:55 AM EDT
[#20]
George Lucas wasn't about Sci-fi............
American Graffiti for the win!! Aloha, Mark |
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Posted: 9/22/2014 1:27:45 AM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
six million dollar man. /thread |
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Posted: 9/22/2014 2:06:51 AM EDT
[#22]
Mt Fuji 3 months before the fire |
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Posted: 9/22/2014 2:12:42 AM EDT
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Wacky Packs! I had these on everything..lol
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Posted: 9/22/2014 2:18:54 AM EDT
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Men wore tshirts cut off mid waist and shorty short cut off jeans and tube shocks to their knees.
Girls wore cut off jeans with literally a quarter of their ass hanging out the bottom.
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Posted: 9/22/2014 2:30:12 AM EDT
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Wacky Packs! I had these on everything..lol http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/treadhead/wacky4_zps1959105b.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/treadhead/wacky2_zps33e78fb9.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/treadhead/wacky3_zps9792b7fb.jpg I forgot about those. They were the coolest stickers EV-VER!!! |
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Posted: 9/22/2014 2:41:26 AM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Men wore tshirts cut off mid waist and shorty short cut off jeans and tube shocks to their knees. Girls wore cut off jeans with literally a quarter of their ass hanging out the bottom.And the girls with short shorts. And the micro-mini skirts. And the mini dresses. With go-go boots. |
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Posted: 9/22/2014 2:47:20 AM EDT
[#27]
Born in 1971, I can remember very little of the 70's, but I remember them as being good times for the most part, Obviously, I really grew up in the 80's. I was free to roam in my small town and explore. That is where I learned many of life's lessons. I feel sorry for kids today that are raised to live in fear of their neighbors and community. On summer days I would get on my bike and be on my own with my friends without supervision until past sundown, because we knew when it was time to go home and check in before heading out again. Freedom is fucking awesome when respected and earned..
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Posted: 9/22/2014 4:12:45 AM EDT
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SNL, with the original cast. "Jane, you ignorant slut", "Knock
knock... who's there... Landshark", Belushi's Samurai Futaba skits... Before MTV, there were shows like Burt Sugarman's The Midnight Special Adam 12, Emergency!, The Rockford Files, Charlie's Angels, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century... Irwin Allen disaster movies like The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno... Tora! Tora! Tora!, A Bridge Too Far, The Wild Geese, Midway, Logan's Run, Jaws, The Exorcist, The Omen, Halloween, The Amityville Horror, about 5 James Bond movies... and Animal House Our Civil Defense programs were rolled into FEMA Weekly tests of your local Federal Signal Thunderbolt 1000 (still tested in the 80s and beyond in some locales)  Man. Now I miss the 1970s. "Have a nice day."  |
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Posted: 9/22/2014 5:23:26 AM EDT
[#29]
Locally owned neighborly Lumberyards. You could buy a gun at the hardware store or 5 and dime. Local grocery store that would deliver and take meat to the basement freezer. Heating with a coal stoker furnace. Paying a deposit on returnable pop bottles.
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Posted: 9/22/2014 5:51:12 AM EDT
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Wow--no mention of " Swingers" and we're into page 4?
I was a kid in the 70s & remember all these things--thanks for the trip down memory lane. I also remember 2 local neighbor " swinger couples" my parents didn't associate with--since I was pre-teen & didn't fully understand the euphemism "have a good time with some else's spouse....." I thought my folks were pretty up tight...then I was actually TOLD what swinging was....  whatever floats your boat.
Ah yes, the sitters always came over in short denim shorts & tube tops 
But into the early 80s--at least in my town, juniors & seniors would bring their shotguns to high school & leave them in the principal's or vice principal's office, then go hunting after school. If you had a car or truck, you just left the shotgun there. How in the world did we ever survive ourselves?
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Posted: 9/22/2014 6:20:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOh God, yes! |
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Posted: 9/22/2014 12:38:57 PM EDT
[#32]
Also....people didn't say "Like", like every fifth word.
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Posted: 9/22/2014 1:52:27 PM EDT
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Also....people didn't say "Like", like every fifth word. Far out man!
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Posted: 9/22/2014 2:12:34 PM EDT
[#34]
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....sold in department stores.
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$100.00 British Enfield's and Swedish Mauser's! http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m570/highrailjon/guns/funroom_zps0856f36c.jpg ....sold in department stores.
When Woolwoth's went out of business in late 1977, they had Springfields marked down for clearance to around $65 and various other milsurps that I didn't recognise at the time down to $24. This was at the Tyson's Corner Mall store in Vienna/Falls Church VA smack dab in middle of Libshitz central |
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Posted: 9/22/2014 2:16:14 PM EDT
[#35]
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watching the beach boys play on the Mall in DC on the fourth of july. or was that in the 80s? Both |
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Posted: 9/22/2014 2:19:00 PM EDT
[#36]
It's okay, you were around for the Awesome 80s... You don't remember flocked hair G.I. Joe but you do remember GI Joe a Real American Hero. You don't remember Star Blazers, but you do remember VOLTRON!
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Posted: 9/22/2014 2:20:32 PM EDT
[#37]
could get a popsicle from the ice cream truck for a nickel
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Posted: 9/22/2014 2:44:07 PM EDT
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You missed an epic amount of cigarette smoke.
You missed macrame owls. You missed Harvey Wallbangers. And ludes. You missed the Bicentennial. Gas lines. Awesome tee-shirts with slogans like "Nuke Their Ass and Take Their Gas" NASA was still going to the Moon. You missed 18%+ rates on mortgages. You missed the dawn of personal computing. You missed not owning the telephone in your house. Finally you missed plaid, orange, and brown polyester clothing and avocado colored kitchen appliances. If everything old is new again why haven't we seen a rebirth of avocado colored appliances? |
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Posted: 9/22/2014 2:44:48 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote History
I remember mine.
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Posted: 9/22/2014 2:47:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
I remember mine. Quote HistoryQuoted:
I remember mine. Why don't bikes have those today? There is carbon fiber and 52,000 gears and independent suspensions but no banana seats? Why? |
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Posted: 9/22/2014 2:54:06 PM EDT
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I should add too, just about anything made by Kenner or Marx Toys!
Me, a power sub and the local pool....awesome   |
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Posted: 9/22/2014 2:57:27 PM EDT
[#42]
I graduated in 83
Rode Bikes everywhere. There was no internet porn and pre HBO/ Cinemax - so if you got a skin mag it was a prized possession. Daisy BBgun Wars Build Guns (black powder), knives and other pointy death implements in High School SSP cars were the tits. Came with a ton of little stickers so you could customize them. Then this came out and I lost my damn mind.  |
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Posted: 9/22/2014 2:58:28 PM EDT
[#43]
$30 an oz Columbian Gold
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Posted: 9/22/2014 3:01:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I graduated in 83 Rode Bikes everywhere. There was no internet porn and pre HBO/ Cinemax - so if you got a skin mag it was a prized possession. Daisy BBgun Wars Build Guns (black powder), knives and other pointy death implements in High School SSP cars were the tits. Came with a ton of little stickers so you could customize them. Then this came out and I lost my damn mind. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2kjisMm3M9Y/R1JQjiEF-iI/AAAAAAAACGc/xLm-v4vphTY/s1600-R/smashup2.jpg Shit was epic! |
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Posted: 9/22/2014 3:03:41 PM EDT
[#45]
The Green Machine and real GI Joes.
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Posted: 9/22/2014 3:05:10 PM EDT
[#46]
Porn was hard to get...so when you found an old Playboy/Penthouse you really thought you had something valuable
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Posted: 9/22/2014 3:06:51 PM EDT
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Paraquat... Or radio commercials on how to check for it
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Posted: 9/22/2014 3:15:39 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/22/2014 3:20:20 PM EDT
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You forgot Gasoline Rationing! Does your car's License Plate number end in an odd or even number? And how did Vanity Plates work then? Watergate, The Yon Kippur War, Skylab, the end of the Viet Nam War (The Mayaguez Incident), Billy Bear, President Ford tripping A Lot, the introductions of the A-10, F14, F15, F16 and F18 aircraft, Star Wars, the Introduction of Pay-TV and The Rescue at Entebbe. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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$0.25 gasoline (circa 1972). You forgot Gasoline Rationing! Does your car's License Plate number end in an odd or even number? And how did Vanity Plates work then? Watergate, The Yon Kippur War, Skylab, the end of the Viet Nam War (The Mayaguez Incident), Billy Bear, President Ford tripping A Lot, the introductions of the A-10, F14, F15, F16 and F18 aircraft, Star Wars, the Introduction of Pay-TV and The Rescue at Entebbe. Ford didn't trip a lot, but the media made it seem like it. He was actually an athletic POTUS. He just received mocking like they later did to Reagan, Quayle, Palin, and Bush. |
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Posted: 9/22/2014 3:22:30 PM EDT
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Sex, lots of sex. The sexual revolution was at it's peak, and the worst you could get would require a shot from the doc. I was a teenager in the 70's and it was a great time to be young, dumb, and full of come.
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