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re: The 1970’s were glorious
Posted on 4/23/26 at 8:23 am to lsufan1971
Posted on 4/23/26 at 8:23 am to lsufan1971
Garden Hose, no we called it the hose pipe 
Yes, and the water was warm and tasted like rubber, mixed with a little dirt, but boy was it glorious !
Yes, and the water was warm and tasted like rubber, mixed with a little dirt, but boy was it glorious !
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Posted on 4/23/26 at 8:25 am to lsufan1971
Hell fricking yes and the late sixties were fire too.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 8:28 am to LSUBFA83
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And moms' that stayed home. When the streetlights came on and you trudged your grubby arse inside you got a home cooked meal. Even if it was something you didn't like you still ate it. And you better not cry or Dad would give you something to cry about.
Ask me how I know you grew up in the 70's. Spot on sir. We have to add that we did come back for lunch, usually a sandwich of some type (ham/pimento/tuna or egg salad/PB&J) with Kool Aid or homemade root beer, sometimes Tang. We were told not to come back in the house or the day is over, time for a bath b/c you are not going to dirty up the house
Kids today have no idea how rich of a life experience we had, although poor by today's standards, we were life rich and didn't know it.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 8:29 am to lsufan1971
yea the freedom was awesome for them. before my time....ironic though...the ones that grew up with the freedom of the 70s became adults and when 9/11 happened decided it would be a good idea to strip all that freedom away
Posted on 4/23/26 at 8:35 am to soccerfüt
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I was too old/tall for them
This is when we would ride them standing up. Push em real fast jump on and inevitably wipe out.
Good times!
Posted on 4/23/26 at 8:37 am to lsufan1971
I call it a hose pipe. Still drink from them. In fact, I did yesterday.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 8:41 am to lsufan1971
It and the 80's were peak America.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 8:42 am to LSUBFA83
quote:This is all true and the reason this country has fallen off so hard over the last 50+ years.
And moms' that stayed home. When the streetlights came on and you trudged your grubby arse inside you got a home cooked meal. Even if it was something you didn't like you still ate it. And you better not cry or Dad would give you something to cry about.
Twas the most glorious decade of all.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 8:44 am to lsu777
Born in 1973.
Peak life was a Friday in the fall of 1980. Anybody who was roughly between the ages of 7-12 knows the answer as to why. School is out for the day, you are outside playing and you voluntarily go inside before the street lights come on. Why? Well, what do you have to look forward to over the next 24 hours?
The Incredible Hulk
The Dukes of Hazzard
Saturday Morning Cartoons
If you got up at 6am you could watch Johnny Quest and the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show before the main event of The Bugs Bunny Show, Superfriends, and Laugh Olympics came on.
Doesn't get much better than that.
Peak life was a Friday in the fall of 1980. Anybody who was roughly between the ages of 7-12 knows the answer as to why. School is out for the day, you are outside playing and you voluntarily go inside before the street lights come on. Why? Well, what do you have to look forward to over the next 24 hours?
The Incredible Hulk
The Dukes of Hazzard
Saturday Morning Cartoons
If you got up at 6am you could watch Johnny Quest and the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show before the main event of The Bugs Bunny Show, Superfriends, and Laugh Olympics came on.
Doesn't get much better than that.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 8:47 am to lsufan1971
I think parents actually got a kick out of this
Posted on 4/23/26 at 8:48 am to TIGERHOLD
No social media makes it 1000X better than today. 
Posted on 4/23/26 at 8:49 am to lsufan1971
Posted on 4/23/26 at 8:52 am to SoDakHawk
quote:
The Dukes of Hazzard
Posted on 4/23/26 at 9:01 am to TIGERHOLD
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-30% abortion rate
-massive inflation
-oil crisis
-junk cars
-Jimmy Carter
-weather underground
Add to that:
-The Vietnam War, which finally officially ended on April 30, 1975
-The Munich Olympics massacre (1972)
-The Kent State shootings (1970)
-The Jonestown mass suicide-murder (1978)
Yeah, it was all that and more.
BUT..
It was also glorious! At least the way we remembered it.
-Great fashion like bell-bottoms! 70s shirts = bold patterns + polyester + big collars
-Great movies like The Godfather, Jaws, and Star Wars.
-Beginnings of the personal computer era.
-Bestest music evah. The likes of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who, Fleetwood Mac, Eagles, Queen, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Springsteen, Bee Gees Marvin Gaye, Earth, Wind & Fire, Curtis Mayfield, Al Green, Aretha Franklin and the Rolling Stones
Good Article!
Posted on 4/23/26 at 9:02 am to lsufan1971
Born in 1971, my memories:
Shag carpet
Literally everyone smoked cigarettes
Riding in my dad’s 78 Dodge Magnum listening to the Cincinnati Reds.
The winter of 1978 in Louisville.
Dad treating his Vietnam war PTSD with binge drinking.
I have mixed feelings about my 1970’s experiences. Dad was a trainwreck for years and I looked forward to spending most of my summer break at my mamaw’s house. Those were the good memories of the 70’s- peaceful there at her house, playing with my cousins, getting fried fish from Mike Linnig’s in Louisville.
Shag carpet
Literally everyone smoked cigarettes
Riding in my dad’s 78 Dodge Magnum listening to the Cincinnati Reds.
The winter of 1978 in Louisville.
Dad treating his Vietnam war PTSD with binge drinking.
I have mixed feelings about my 1970’s experiences. Dad was a trainwreck for years and I looked forward to spending most of my summer break at my mamaw’s house. Those were the good memories of the 70’s- peaceful there at her house, playing with my cousins, getting fried fish from Mike Linnig’s in Louisville.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 9:05 am to TIGERHOLD
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30% abortion rate
-massive inflation
-oil crisis
-junk cars
-Jimmy Carter
-weather underground
Yeah, no thanks. Take off the rose colored glasses boomer
We were kids, we didn't care about that shite...
All we worried about was not missing ball practice, getting a new bike or skateboard, or whether our parents would take us to the mall to get the new Kiss album.
This post was edited on 4/23/26 at 11:40 am
Posted on 4/23/26 at 9:09 am to lsufan1971
Ah yes, the tube socks of the 70's/80's. You played so hard that you would bust a hole in the big toe. Would you throw it out, have mom sew it? Hell no, you just twisted the hole, tucked it in between your big toe and pointer toe and kept playing We went hard and we loved it.
We went hard and we loved it. Posted on 4/23/26 at 9:13 am to kywildcatfanone
quote:
It and the 80's were peak America.
Mid to late 80's were the beginnings of the downfall. When kids could watch cartoons all day, every day and play video games at home, that is when the slide began.
70's and 80's though....glad I experienced them.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 9:17 am to 91TIGER
quote:
hose pipe
First time I heard someone refer to it as a "hose pipe" was when I went to Southeastern, it was someone from Bogalusa...
I was like hose pipe? You mean a hose?
This post was edited on 4/23/26 at 9:21 am
Posted on 4/23/26 at 9:27 am to Hangover Haven
Rock fights
Yes, we used to play by throwing rocks at one another
Clackers - you could count on when the South Florida Fair came into town you would see these hanging from powerlines for the next two months.
*Born in 64
Yes, we used to play by throwing rocks at one another
Clackers - you could count on when the South Florida Fair came into town you would see these hanging from powerlines for the next two months.
*Born in 64
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