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What was life like in the 1970s as an adult
Posted on 8/26/18 at 9:23 am
Posted on 8/26/18 at 9:23 am
Watching 3s Company right now and just curious.
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Posted on 8/26/18 at 9:24 am to athenslife101
Pretty much that. But less gay.
Posted on 8/26/18 at 9:24 am to athenslife101
40 years younger
Posted on 8/26/18 at 9:27 am to athenslife101
What I remember the most was that smoking was accepted everywhere. Every place you went was permeated with the smell of cigarette smoke. Offices, airplanes, restaurants, etc.
ETA: there was no such thing as a non-smoking hotel room!
ETA: there was no such thing as a non-smoking hotel room!
This post was edited on 8/26/18 at 10:53 am
Posted on 8/26/18 at 9:35 am to Spankum
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Every place you went was permeated with the smell of cigarette smoke.
I wasn’t an adult, but I remember this.
Cheaply made crappy cars. Bad music. Everything was a gaudy color.
Edit: I see the comments about the music. If you scanned the dial on your cheap AM single speaker radio in your POS 70s car, about all you got was disco from 76 to 80. Crap.
This post was edited on 8/26/18 at 9:44 am
Posted on 8/26/18 at 9:37 am to athenslife101
More like King of the Hill than 3s Company.
Posted on 8/26/18 at 9:38 am to TheHarahanian
Yep...my apartment at Sharlo had harvest gold— colored appliances and shag carpet!
Posted on 8/26/18 at 9:40 am to athenslife101
Lots of parties, drugs, good music, Sex. Simpler life.
Posted on 8/26/18 at 9:41 am to TheHarahanian
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Bad music
GTFOOH
Besides Disco, 70's music is some of the greatest (and I'm a 80's teen)
Posted on 8/26/18 at 9:41 am to athenslife101
After the war was over it was great. Hot cars, hot women, and except for disco, great music.
Posted on 8/26/18 at 9:42 am to JCinBAMA
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Lots of parties, drugs, good music, Sex. Simpler life.
Pretty much. Everyone partied, that's how they socialized before the internet.
The shadow of the cold war had a lot to do with it. Most people thought the world would end soon via nuclear war so they partied heavily.
Posted on 8/26/18 at 9:44 am to RogerTheShrubber
pubic hair
Posted on 8/26/18 at 9:49 am to OWLFAN86
Cheap alcohol, cheap drugs, cheap gas until the late 70's. Lot of partying anywhere, anytime. Good times what I remember.
Posted on 8/26/18 at 10:03 am to athenslife101
Tube tops made life easy. Real titties 
Posted on 8/26/18 at 10:07 am to TheHarahanian
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Cheaply made crappy cars
When a car in the 70s reached 100,000 miles, they were done. They were practically a rolling bucket of bolts.
Today, it’s not uncommon to pay $20-30k for a used car with 150k miles.
Posted on 8/26/18 at 10:09 am to LuckySo-n-So
I’m still waiting for the day where it’s going to be common for cars to hit the 500,000 mile mark.
Posted on 8/26/18 at 10:11 am to athenslife101
No internet, no cell phones, no cable TV. Jaws, Towering Inferno, and Poseidon Adventure. Lots of sports and time hanging with friends. Awkward phone calls with girls hoping parents wouldn’t walk in kitchen. I spent my early teens in 1970s, and really enjoyed it.
Posted on 8/26/18 at 10:11 am to Paul Allen
My rolls just topped 20k.
Time to go car shopping!
Time to go car shopping!
Posted on 8/26/18 at 10:14 am to JCinBAMA
Yes indeed. Safe sex meant you pulled over to the side of the road before you boned away. No condoms 99% of the time.
Posted on 8/26/18 at 10:14 am to Paul Allen
70s
I co-founded the Edna Schwartz memorial commune.
Intimacy
Great dance parties
Interest in other models of reality.
The dominant paradigm was being transcended.
We lived outside the box.
I co-founded the Edna Schwartz memorial commune.
Intimacy
Great dance parties
Interest in other models of reality.
The dominant paradigm was being transcended.
We lived outside the box.
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