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re: What was life like in the 1970s as an adult
Posted on 8/27/18 at 1:33 pm to Fewer Kilometers
Posted on 8/27/18 at 1:33 pm to Fewer Kilometers
Might have been the same guy 
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Posted on 8/27/18 at 1:46 pm to MMauler
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Seeing LSU football on TV seemed like a lifetime event
My father cme to the US for grad school in the late 70's. He had a 21" color TV and a new fangled VCR in tow. Back then even Bama or ND would only be on TV 2-3 times a year even if they were top ranked or undefeated. LSU would only be on TV if they played a team like Bama or LSU. Everyone would watch all the bowl games because even game like the Liberty Bowl would have ranked teams.
My father would carry that TV over to his girlfriend sorority house where it would be the official TV on weekends. He had cable in his apartment but it was only 13 channels. He did get Showtime and HBO later. Girls still cooked. Getting a pizza was rare so was a bucket of KFC. It was like Sunday dinner.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 1:49 pm to TheHarahanian
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. 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.
sorry you didn't have WRNO in BR back then.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 4:05 pm to Paul B Ammer
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My father cme to the US for grad school in the late 70's. He had a 21" color TV and a new fangled VCR in tow.
By 1980 we had one of these 25" bad boys with a built-in "space phone" --
Here's the remote --
We could answer the phone with the TV remote. We loved it, but the people on the other end of the phone HATED IT because they said it sounded like we were at the end of a LONG tunnel. We didn't give a sh!t - it was SUPER convenient.
My complete b!tch of a grandma would call and immediately say, "GET ME OFF OF THIS GOD DAMN THING!" I'd say, "Okay" and hang up on her.
This post was edited on 8/27/18 at 7:08 pm
Posted on 8/27/18 at 4:12 pm to MorbidTheClown
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sorry you didn't have WRNO in BR
It was in maybe '70, that we had WWOM was it? It was better than the old RNO.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 4:15 pm to MMauler
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By 1980 we had one of these 25" bad boys
Same here. By 1986 it became the TV stand for our new TV because nobody wanted to move it out.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 4:24 pm to Paul B Ammer
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He did get Showtime and HBO later.
In the early 70s most cable systems had one pay movie channel, you could build a bootleg filter to descramble it with about 5 dollars in parts from Radio Shack, so many people were doing it the stores couldn't keep the parts stocked.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 5:55 pm to EA6B
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you could build a bootleg filter to descramble it with about 5 dollars in parts from Radio Shack
Back when radio shack wasn't the crappy store it is now.
Posted on 8/27/18 at 6:59 pm to athenslife101
Big hairy bushes!
Posted on 8/28/18 at 9:47 am to FLTech
We had Battle of the Network Stars to look forward to...
and even as a kid, I couldn't take my eyes from Linda Carter's tits...
and even as a kid, I couldn't take my eyes from Linda Carter's tits...
This post was edited on 8/28/18 at 9:49 am
Posted on 8/28/18 at 10:03 am to athenslife101
Van Nuys Blvd 1972
Posted on 8/28/18 at 10:26 am to athenslife101
Rock music was better (and FAR less commercialized) and Disco sucked.
Posted on 8/28/18 at 10:28 am to MMauler
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By 1980 we had one of these 25" bad boys with a built-in "space phone" --
And those console TV's back then cost an arm and a leg for what they were. For 1975 dollars, you could buy a nice 50+ inch flat screen HDTV in today's market.
Guess if you figured paying by the pound, you came out ahead back then because those old TV's were HEAVY.
Posted on 8/28/18 at 10:32 am to TheHarahanian
quote:Led Zep.....
Bad music
Posted on 8/28/18 at 10:35 am to gumbo2176
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And those console TV's back then cost an arm and a leg for what they were.
state of the art technology back then
Posted on 8/28/18 at 10:36 am to Supermoto Tiger
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It seemed like everyone had a love affair with the white powder. And it really wasn’t that frowned upon.
People also handed out pills like they were skittles.
One great thing about that era, people didn't overanalyze and overthink everything. Life was more at face value. My neighborhood had both working class and professionals, and no crime.
Most people watched after the neighborhood kids and understood that the kids will be kids and do crazy things, and we weren't eternally punished for it. We matured much more quickly than kids today because we had to learn and we're given responsibility. It was a very idealized time to be a kid, but the grown ups libpved with a bad economy, the shadow of Vietnam and the threat of global nuclear war.
Posted on 8/28/18 at 12:07 pm to athenslife101
If the Saints did not sell out, the game was not televised. I remember my dad and uncle driving to Mississippi to watch the game.
Posted on 8/28/18 at 12:09 pm to HECM62
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my dad and uncle driving to Mississippi to watch the game.
must have had to go to Jackson, Lafayette was inside the blackout radius
come to think of it, they were doing that in the 90s
This post was edited on 8/28/18 at 12:10 pm
Posted on 8/28/18 at 12:10 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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kids will be kids
rode my bike in the street behind the mosquito man....... without a helmet
Posted on 8/28/18 at 12:23 pm to MorbidTheClown
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rode my bike in the street behind the mosquito man....... without a helmet
trashy, at least our mom gave us a wet wash cloth to put over our nose and mouth to ride behind it
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