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re: Groovy Things Young People Who Lived in the '70s Might Remember
Posted on 4/5/24 at 2:23 pm to Rebel
Posted on 4/5/24 at 2:23 pm to Rebel
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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.
Exactly. Or in my town, a back room at the burger joint with pinball and a pool table. I graduated from HS in 1979 and don't recall actual video games and arcades until I was in college. There was pong. That was all.
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Posted on 4/5/24 at 2:32 pm to Liberator
I wonder how many kids got killed or maimed on these and minibikes....... a kid from my school got run over by a school bus - I probably put more miles on a bicycle in one week than kids today put on a bike in a lifetime.
yeah very very few fatties back then. LINK
This post was edited on 4/5/24 at 2:33 pm
Posted on 4/5/24 at 2:34 pm to Liberator
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4) Being oblivious to "stranger danger"
Sorry, but this one died after the Son of Sam’s rampage in the Summer of 77. I lived in SoCal at the time and it was also the explosion of serial killers there kidnapping and raping and murdering young women and boys. By 78 we had school assemblies where they brought in cops to warn us that any stranger could be a perv that wanted to pork our bunghole (and showing us crime scene pics of bodies being pulled from ditches, sewer pipes, etc). That was the end of giving strangers any benefit of the doubt.
Posted on 4/5/24 at 2:38 pm to Liberator
Remember most of those
Posted on 4/5/24 at 2:42 pm to Liberator
Somebody's eventual Mom & now Grandma washing my dream car SL(W113):
Posted on 4/5/24 at 2:50 pm to BK Lounge
I've always wondered what that lyric.
I jokingly thought it was
"Find your self in intertube"
I jokingly thought it was
"Find your self in intertube"
Posted on 4/5/24 at 3:01 pm to fr33manator
quote:and kidnapping
During the 1970s you could actually "trust a stranger". Wasn't it also the heyday of cereal killers?
Posted on 4/5/24 at 3:03 pm to tigerfoot
these things. And macrame everything Posted on 4/5/24 at 3:30 pm to DesScorp
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This post was edited on 4/20/24 at 2:21 pm
Posted on 4/5/24 at 4:27 pm to DesScorp
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By 78 we had school assemblies where they brought in cops to warn us that any stranger could be a perv that wanted to pork our bunghole (and showing us crime scene pics of bodies being pulled from ditches, sewer pipes, etc). That was the end of giving strangers any benefit of the doubt.
Not sure where you lived, but those assemblies had not made their way to N. La. by my 1979 HS graduation.
Posted on 4/5/24 at 4:29 pm to FredBear
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Clackers
All y'all know that is not what they were called in 1975.
Posted on 4/5/24 at 5:34 pm to LaLadyinTx
"Schools Out" by Alice Cooper was a last day of school tradition. Sometimes played over the PA.
Posted on 4/5/24 at 6:09 pm to TejasHorn
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Violent crime was higher in the 70s,
Maybe in the shithole cities.
My county had one deputy on duty on weeknights back then.
Posted on 4/5/24 at 6:13 pm to VernonPLSUfan
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Who grew up with a drawer in the kitchen solely for cigarettes
The carton of smokes was in the freezer.
Posted on 4/6/24 at 11:44 am to Liberator
I programmed a game on this computer. Spent months working on it, but the system was already fading and being replaced.
Posted on 4/6/24 at 11:48 am to BuckyCheese
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Maybe in the shithole cities.
Yeah, there was little crime to speak of that I can remember. It always occurred in very specific areas.
In the normal neighborhoods, it was unheard of.
Posted on 4/6/24 at 12:27 pm to Liberator
I saw a video of several teenagers out in a room with a rotary dial phone and told to figure it out. They couldn't. Lol
Posted on 4/6/24 at 12:35 pm to lake chuck fan
Saw a vid recently where someone gave a teenager in 2024 an old Sony Walkman with a cassette tape.. he was confused, like ‘there’s only 5 songs on this thing’.. it took him a couple days to figure out you could take the tape out and flip it over to hear more songs.. still he was amazed that we used to have such a limited selection of songs on cassettes since his iPhone has thousands of songs .
Posted on 4/6/24 at 12:42 pm to RogerTheShrubber
And all of those people raised their kids to be fat lazy slobs.
Posted on 4/6/24 at 12:44 pm to Liberator
Remember when we had good jobs here before y’all voted to send them all to China? Remember when houses were 300 bucks but yall voted for inflation? Sad how boomers messed over millenials
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