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Posted: 9/24/2021 12:12:58 AM EDT
[#1]
I had a sixty-nine Chevy 396
Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 12:19:40 AM EDT
[#2]
All 70s music was fucking horrible. Disco was pure shit, country went to shit, and the British "rock" was fucking pathetic. Fucking KISS was a joke.
It was a sad sad time in history for music. |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 2:21:46 AM EDT
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'65 to '94 Best ride of my life. Anyone that thinks today is better is tarded.
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Posted: 9/24/2021 2:33:16 AM EDT
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I've spent many hours in a hazy room on a couch exactly like that.
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Posted: 9/24/2021 3:07:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryThe only way that album cover could be any gayer is if those dudes all had a dick in their mouths. |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 3:11:13 AM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I got alot of pussy in the 70s , now the pussy I get is close to 70 Holy shit #Metoo! |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 3:49:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No helmets No seat belts. You could smoke in a hospital. The one that blows my kids' minds: student smoking lounges at the high school. |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 4:03:49 AM EDT
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I wasn't around for much of the 70s, but what little I could remember from back then was that it sure felt safer than it does now.
We did have bomb threats in school several times. The great 80s bands were forming up and recording their first albums in the 70s. Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin, Queen, Van Halen, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and so many others were from that era. |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 4:05:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I doubt it was Baltimore or New Orleans I lived in Jefferson a few blocks from the Hughey P Long bridge and it was fine back then. But that area has definitely declined now. |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 4:13:05 AM EDT
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I was born in 70 so I remember the 80’s much better of course. That being said, I have fond memories of the 70’s. I liked the music; some of it I still love to this day. Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers, Kenny Loggins, Heart, Eagles, ELO, Fleetwood Mac, Marshall Tucker Band and so on. Many of those bands continued on into the 80’s and later, but they were all a part of my early 70’s childhood. Good music!
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Posted: 9/24/2021 4:14:49 AM EDT
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When you were living it, you judged it by what had come before.
Don't look at the past with the knowledge of what's come along since. There were some things that were wildly unpopular at the time...econobox cars meant to improve fuel mileage were never popular, for instance. Politicians were as hated then as they are now. You still had a lot of old people still living who'd literally been around since the beginning of the 20th century who wouldn't hesitate to tell you that we were all going to hell because of that Devil's music rock and roll and all sorts of social issues they didn't like. For those of us growing up in the era, for the most part our parents did what parents are supposed to do and try to shield their kids from the worst of the real world. That's why every generation thinks that things were better when they were kids.. they were protected to some degree from the realities of the world. |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 4:15:44 AM EDT
[#12]
OP likes his 2010's shades of grey with metrosexual names like onyx, slate, and whetstone.
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Posted: 9/24/2021 4:17:53 AM EDT
[#13]
At least most people were fit and not fat like you see today.
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Posted: 9/24/2021 5:26:46 AM EDT
[#14]
Quote HistoryQuoted: No social media in those days, so you only experienced what was in your immediate surroundings. And guns were CHEAP. It was far better than today. Everybody worked. You could get out of high school get a good job buy a truck and rent a small place or apartment by yourself and have money to buy guns and hunt. M16s colts were at gun shows for 600-700 dollars. Ammo was cheap. You could hunt ducks and geese with lead shot. AIDS was not around. Cops were pretty cool back then about guns and you could still drink a beer driving across Texas. Everyone had a sliding rear glass and a cooler in the bed of the truck for beer. You could hunt for free in most places but hunting leases were cheap too. Good times for the most part. People knew right from wrong. |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 5:47:32 AM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I was born in 70 so my perspective is that of a kid during that time. The one thing that really stands out in my memory, that people don’t understand today, is the amount of trash that was everywhere. Beside the roads, in the parks, everywhere. Littering was just a thing you did. When someone was done with a fast food bag, they’d just pitch it out the car window. Glass bottles broken everywhere, pop tops that would cut your foot open. It was like that everywhere. In some ways it’s a lot cleaner these days. But in other ways it’s not. Born in '71. I remember this as well. 
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Posted: 9/24/2021 5:56:48 AM EDT
[#16]
Something from the era that I bought much later but really liked during that era.
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Posted: 9/24/2021 5:57:42 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/24/2021 6:39:08 AM EDT
[#18]
Quote History60's Chargers were better. 1970's had: +1 in shape women. -1 huge bush-maybe that's a +1 for some. -1 pointy boobs. Again, that's probably a +1 for some. |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 6:54:58 AM EDT
[#19]
70's
Lynyrd Skynyrd Led Zepplin Boston Van Halen The Big Red Machine Oakland Raiders with Stabler, Cowboys with Staubach, Steelers with Bradshaw. Used 60's cars fairly cheap. USA made Schwinn bicycles, no helmet. Kids played outside until the street lights came on. I was a kid, didn't worry about taxes, gas or interest rates. The 70's were good, not nearly as good as the 80's. |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 7:23:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: OP is thinking of the late 70's. The early part of the decade had excellent cars, excellent music and no bras. Picture a hot and humid day. Maybe a little rain shower. Non-obese young women in large numbers entering an icy cold air-conditioned building. SPROING! |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 7:34:36 AM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Disco dance halls were awesome places. Lou's Rule: Women dance because they like to dance. Men dance because they like the women who like to dance. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Disco sucked! The rest, not so bad. Disco dance halls were awesome places. Lou's Rule: Women dance because they like to dance. Men dance because they like the women who like to dance. This. Tide pod thread. |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 7:35:37 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/24/2021 7:42:04 AM EDT
[#23]
It was awesome/awful…
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Posted: 9/24/2021 7:43:04 AM EDT
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Born in '71. I remember this as well. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I was born in 70 so my perspective is that of a kid during that time. The one thing that really stands out in my memory, that people don’t understand today, is the amount of trash that was everywhere. Beside the roads, in the parks, everywhere. Littering was just a thing you did. When someone was done with a fast food bag, they’d just pitch it out the car window. Glass bottles broken everywhere, pop tops that would cut your foot open. It was like that everywhere. In some ways it’s a lot cleaner these days. But in other ways it’s not. Born in '71. I remember this as well. Born 71 too. A high spot was 1976, when we didn’t need a tragedy like 9/11 to unify us, and it lasted longer than a week. Then the late 70s. Bleak, very bleak. 1980 was really dawn in America and if you ask me, we’re still feeling the ripple effect from a politically and financially gangbusters decade. |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 7:45:41 AM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The hippies from the 70's are the politicians ruining shit now. It's funny that their mantra went from "power to the people" to "the government knows best!" Well, they smoked alot of dope and dropped alot of acid, so trusting in their judgment is are fault. |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 7:48:46 AM EDT
[#26]
I was a teenager in the 70's, there were no fat chicks. At most, there were a bit overweight ones but you didn't see land whales waddling about or getting towed around in a pre whopper chopper.
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Posted: 9/24/2021 7:48:49 AM EDT
[#27]
We had the identical sofa and chairs that are in the op.
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Posted: 9/24/2021 7:53:25 AM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I doubt it was Baltimore or New Orleans I hung out in Baltimore because my mom owned a tenement building there. Shit was poor and run down (urban blight years) but so was everywhere. The tenants of the building would break shit to avoid paying rent. People still seemed to be happier then even. |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 7:56:29 AM EDT
[#29]
The 70s were great.
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Posted: 9/24/2021 8:05:51 AM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryI graduated from High School in '79. This young lady was quite typical to the girls in my school. Average looks, but tried to be pretty. And their bodies were also pretty. With lovely full bushes. YUM...  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 8:11:50 AM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Late 60s were peak muscle. 70s were emission-choked shit. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The 70s also had some of the coolest muscle cars ever. You're also ignoring them. But yes, the fashions sucked. Late 60s were peak muscle. 70s were emission-choked shit. Out of the showroom, sure. But the 70s were when kids were buying them and making them faster. |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 8:13:38 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The 70s had some of the best music ever. You're just ignoring it by focusing on disco. Disco was pop for the 70s and pop always sucks. The 70s also had some of the coolest muscle cars ever. You're also ignoring them. But yes, the fashions sucked. Hot pants and halter tops? |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 8:15:02 AM EDT
[#33]
You're right OP, a lot of that stuff hasn't "aged well" and looks ridiculous now when you look at old photos of it.
But you had to be IN those times, to understand them. It's a hard thing to describe. |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 8:15:27 AM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I got alot of pussy in the 70s , now the pussy I get is close to 70 Retro 70s beaver FTW! 
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Posted: 9/24/2021 8:17:05 AM EDT
[#35]
The beginning of forced segregation in the south. It was fun, until they made whitey stop bringing their rifles to high school. Fkrs............
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Posted: 9/24/2021 8:18:15 AM EDT
[#36]
 Best childhood any man could have had. |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 8:19:05 AM EDT
[#37]
Very few fat asses.
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Posted: 9/24/2021 8:23:02 AM EDT
[#38]
Smokey and the Bandit. Enough said.
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Posted: 9/24/2021 8:28:06 AM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: 70's cars were great. Then they weren't. Then they went to complete shit. I do remember something about Pintos detonating reliably when hit. |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 8:30:46 AM EDT
[#40]
70s were pretty good for me. I could walk in to Sears, Wards or Walmart and walk out with guns and ammo. A box of 22 was 49 cents. Drive up the road and shoot in empty fields.
I also remember one of the guys bringing his 12 ga shotgun to shop class to refinish the stock. Try doing that now. |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 8:35:55 AM EDT
[#41]
Nobody bothered to lock their homes, vehicles around here. Guns in vehicles @ school parking lots, shop class.
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Posted: 9/24/2021 8:37:39 AM EDT
[#42]
Well there wasn't some tranny drag queen reading hour at the local library.
Disco sucked but that's where the chicks were. (Saw the Beegees live and it was the best live production I have seen on a small stage. They didn't play a fixed set, they played to the crowd). Ted Nugent, Frank Zappa, Rush. Friday nights at the bar usually meant live music. I saw John Cougar playing in a bar he wasn't old enough to drink in. There was 1/2 an hour of news. Not 24 hour rinse and repeat 40 times a day news. People tended to think for themselves. People had manners something that seems to be lost these days. My '71 Firebird dropped more panties than your civic. 
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Posted: 9/24/2021 8:38:37 AM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/551177/signal-2021-07-23-130628-2102711.jpg Best childhood any man could have had. So he's destroying a railroad, hurdling a giant shitbox, racing a horse, and uprooting a tree with his bare hands. It's not the hero we want, but it's the hero we deserve. |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 8:40:47 AM EDT
[#44]
You know not of what you speak. I would gladly go back to the Seventies over what we are living with today. Classic rock music performed live. The early 70's cars were still awesome, after 74 they went downhill fast.
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Posted: 9/24/2021 8:41:14 AM EDT
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Turned 20 in 1974, seemed to be able to do things on little money. College years ,so I was concerned w/ that, things were simpler and you had less tech to distract you , magazines were your info source. Liked the overall vibe back then, get out and do things, especially outdoors. It was all a learning experience as I didn't seem to know a whole lot.
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Posted: 9/24/2021 8:43:35 AM EDT
[#46]
Original VH album 1978
VH II 1979 |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 8:44:53 AM EDT
[#47]
Quoted: Horrible cars. Horrible music. Brown everywhere. https://www.collectorsweekly.com/uploads/2018/08/22113752/grandma_70ssofa_heractualcouch.jpg https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/features/mustang-ii-forty-years-later.img.png/1500004288531.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hcy3-NXoxuU/hqdefault.jpg ...... There's the door. |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 8:46:57 AM EDT
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Late 70s was great, too. Good music, kids hated hippies, punk rock on the rise…
 Over the Edge - Trailer #1  Van Halen [You Really Got Me] - Over the Edge (1979) |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 8:47:56 AM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Original VH album 1978 VH II 1979 I remember the night I first heard the first VH album. I was at a kids birthday party and someone got it for him as a gift. He slapped it on the record player and I was like ,"this is some magic shit". I was 10 years old and it was 1978. |
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Posted: 9/24/2021 8:48:47 AM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I do remember something about Pintos detonating reliably when hit. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: 70's cars were great. Then they weren't. Then they went to complete shit. I do remember something about Pintos detonating reliably when hit. Pretty much everyone thinks the era when they started getting laid was pretty good. |
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