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re: Groovy Things Young People Who Lived in the '70s Might Remember
Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:31 pm to fr33manator
Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:31 pm to fr33manator
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Wasn't it also the heyday of cereal killers?
Hell yeah, every 70's kid would just kill some cereal. We needed the sugar because we were out from sun up to sundown riding bikes and playing baseball.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:31 pm to Liberator
Pong was mesmerizing with its simplicity.
Video arcades were all the rage.
I remember my gym shorts from the mid 60's until I graduated in 70 were more like girls hot pants they wear now. Think the Boston Celtics and Larry Bird in those ridiculously short uniform pants.
Bell bottom pants were standard attire and if you had a pair of platform shoes and a banlon pullover shirt, you were styling and profiling.
If the house phone was being tied up, just run down to the corner store and drop a nickel in the phone to make a call.
Walking or taking the public service bus to school and back while still in early grade school by myself.
Actually getting off the sofa to change the channels or turn up the volume on the TV-----Oh, and 4 channels was the limit-----and they all went off at midnight.
Riding bicycles with no helmets, kneepads and often without shoes.
Roller skating using the old steel sidewalk skates held on your feet by cut up bicycle inner tubes to make big rubber bands.
Seems everybody smoked-------------everywhere----in the hospital, cars, restaurants, airplanes, busses but not in church.
Video arcades were all the rage.
I remember my gym shorts from the mid 60's until I graduated in 70 were more like girls hot pants they wear now. Think the Boston Celtics and Larry Bird in those ridiculously short uniform pants.
Bell bottom pants were standard attire and if you had a pair of platform shoes and a banlon pullover shirt, you were styling and profiling.
If the house phone was being tied up, just run down to the corner store and drop a nickel in the phone to make a call.
Walking or taking the public service bus to school and back while still in early grade school by myself.
Actually getting off the sofa to change the channels or turn up the volume on the TV-----Oh, and 4 channels was the limit-----and they all went off at midnight.
Riding bicycles with no helmets, kneepads and often without shoes.
Roller skating using the old steel sidewalk skates held on your feet by cut up bicycle inner tubes to make big rubber bands.
Seems everybody smoked-------------everywhere----in the hospital, cars, restaurants, airplanes, busses but not in church.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:34 pm to Liberator
I'm a 90's kid but I love the sunken living rooms with conversation pits. Did anyone have that in their homes?
Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:34 pm to gumbo2176
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Actually getting off the sofa to change the channels or turn up the volume on the TV-----Oh, and 4 channels was the limit-----and they all went off at midnight.
Then you got this.
This post was edited on 4/4/24 at 3:36 pm
Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:35 pm to gumbo2176
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Riding bicycles with no helmets, kneepads and often without shoes.
We would build ramps and jump over things on our bikes with no helmet and pads. But I personally had to have shoes, those metal pedals would bite into my feet.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:36 pm to gumbo2176
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Video arcades were all the rage.
70’s Arcades were typically an area in the bowling alley with a couple of pinball machines.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:37 pm to Liberator
Threads like this are the outcome of the OT getting old.
And I say that as a kid born in the 70s.
And I say that as a kid born in the 70s.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:38 pm to Rebel
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Mom rarely bought Tang. But I remember this being in the fridge almost always.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:42 pm to Liberator
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4) Being oblivious to "stranger danger"
Most neighborhoods were that safe because prying eyes dads, uncles, cousins, moms, aunts, non-related neighbors and local cops all closely monitored every neighborhood. Strange "Characters" knew the danger of being "flagged" lest their personal health and limbs be at risk for the mere appearance of seeming to "lurk around kids".
This just isn't true. Danger was worse for children running around neighborhoods.
ETA:
You got the "oblivious" part right though. Ignorance was truly bliss
This post was edited on 4/4/24 at 3:44 pm
Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:43 pm to Liberator
90% of those apply to the 80's as well but I didn't know any young kids that hitchhiked.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:48 pm to Darth_Vader
Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:48 pm to Liberator
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6) Hitching Rides
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No car? No problem! Just stick out your thumb and wait for a kind stranger to pull over and offer you a ride. It seems unthinkable today, but for a '70s free spirit who didn't have the bread to buy their own car (or was too young for a license). During the 1970s you could actually "trust a stranger".
ETA: There were so many serial killers at work in the 1970s that investigators legitimately didn't know which killer to blame many murders on. Many of them loved a good, trusting hitchhiker. There's a reason the 70s are considered, I guess......the "golden age" of serial killers.
This post was edited on 4/4/24 at 4:13 pm
Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:50 pm to northshorebamaman
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90% of those apply to the 80's as well but I didn't know any young kids that hitchhiked.
Really common in the 70s.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:52 pm to Liberator
loved this neighborhood game, many times played until late in the Summer evenings after the street lights came on
The original warning/caution signal fueled by kerosene .... later replaced with battery operated blinking lights
The original warning/caution signal fueled by kerosene .... later replaced with battery operated blinking lights
Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:52 pm to Liberator
I had more bloody stubbed toes in one summer than kids today have in a lifetime. We never wore shoes once school was out for the summer.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 3:53 pm to RogerTheShrubber
quote:In the 80's I was taught that only serial killers picked up hitchhikers and that the only people that hitchhiked were serial killers. Seemed like a tense situation with both of them trying to get the jump on the other.
Really common in the 70s.
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