Post an image of something that you love about America in the 1970s - when America was beautiful.

"Save me, free me..."

I was just a little tiny kid, but i remember my big wheel!

"Are we not men . . ."

My first positive impression of the US...

Jim Yount/Colt Studios

Cheap concert tickets!

didn't you feel good about...

Robby Benson

Trippy

Patterns for everything

angels

Long before social media - when we had to be more selective about our photos because film was limited!

^^ That's Burger King, in case you didn't know.

R19 put descriptions in your posts so those of us who, unfortunately, have link previews turned off will know what we're about to click on!

Thank you

One of only two presidents we’ve had in my lifetime who have been thoroughly decent men.

I wouldn't call Old Teeth and Prayers "a decent man." He's an asshole, and fucked up so bad as President that a dimwit actor beat him handily in the Presidential election. Thanks for nothing, Jimmy-boy!

I really liked those small family run theme parks like Fantasyland, which was in Gettysburg, PA. There is something so sweet and quaint about them that is lost in the Disneyfication of all of them today. Very magical and special places as a small kid.

I SOOOO agree, R24 and what a great pic you chose!

Nothing said room decor in the 70s like beaded curtains to jazz up your space and add mystery and allure.

^You're so right, kid!

When general interest and humor magazines flourished

When SNL was funny.

I loved local radio with live DJs, Now we have Voice-Tracked guys in distant cities who read from liner cards.

The Bicentennial made colonial revival very big, and in terms of dinnerware no one did it better than Pfaltzgraff. This Gourmet Brown Drip is what I grew up with, but they had other patterns like Yorktowne, Village and Dutch Colonial.

When preteens were a magazine market demographic

R10 .. In 1984 when Judge Green broke-up AT&T, there was a New Yorker cartoon of a politician "If elected, I will reunite The Bell System."

We loved our terrariums, it always seemed like dentists had the best ones along with Highlights magazine.

Great thread! Brings back wonderful memories. I would add but I don't know how to add pics.

Kinney Shoes!!

Playful architecture.

Agree, r36.

Thanks for starting this thread, OP!

I thought this was pretty when I was young!

[quote]I loved local radio with live DJs, Now we have Voice-Tracked guys in distant cities who read from liner cards.

The radio WAS so good on those days. Sometimes I didn't want to get out of the car when we reached our destination.

(& BTW - all those people who make those crappy 70s retro movies and TV shows like Vinyl - THIS is what hip guys looked like in the mid-70s)

[quote] I would add but I don't know how to add pics.

I would know how to begin to explain.

sorry wouldN'T.

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Swamp Buggy Astroworld

"Dude, you're totally bulgin'."

"You like?"

"Totally!"

I wasn't American (I'm still not) but Chico And The Man and that terrible fake looking set always seemed so American to me in the 70s. I could never even follow it, but it always seemed to be on TV in England.

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I fucking loved it . I don't give a shit what anyone says. Especially THIS scene.

Homemade Bicentennial Parade outfits

Back when women were beautiful

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When cars were real cars and not wind-up toys.

My babysitter ironing and watching Dinah Shore

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God'll get you for that!

Jan Michael Vincent's immortal scene in Buster and Billie.

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1975 - 2014

YOU decide!

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The new King Kong was supposed to be better than the original.

New York was broke but cheap.

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I know it's become a bit of a cliché - but New York in the 70s.

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Created a generation of gaylings.

Tania Fierce!

If any post needed an image to illustrate, R60...

Movies with All-Star Casts

Those wrinkles of skin at his hip.

I like to dance

Disaster movies with old Hollywood stars.

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People cared about the environment.

Bicentennial Minutes

Al Parker

Oh James.

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New Wave Music

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Color! Everywhere!

Not a single image, but....

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Flower stickers

Rockstars OD'ing

For the stoners....

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What is that at r79?

When Star Wars was thrilling

You will believe a man can fly.

oh, dear, r99.

Finding gas was an adventure!

W I N

When horrible crimped hair and too much rouge were considered beautiful.

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McMillan and Wife

R41, that's how I remember guys in high school.

bitches be slippin

I feel like such a fucking DL cliché

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Cher.

Playgirl's first full-frontal centerfold.

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Jeebus this blew up in 3 hours

Fred Halsted & Joe Gage

fabulous thread

ZOOM ! Boston Mass 02134!

R49 Now that you mention it, the opening AND closing credits are a beautiful portrait of East Los Angeles in the early '70s. It's art, really.

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A Clockwork Orange

The only movie I watched twice in the same day. I started to leave the theater then sat down again for the next showing. It blew my mind.

The pic at R122 brings back memories. My father was obsessed about when we'd be taking calls or not. Certainly not during dinner.

When we got a later model phone you could turn off the ringer but he didn't bother with that. Just take if off the hook.

Movie theaters

My girl cousins and I used to sing this.

Playgirl's first celebrity full-frontal centerfold, actor Don Stroud. He insisted a full-frontal be included in the magazine before the photo shoot. It was also Playgirl's first four panel wall poster.

I loved the centerfold men of the 70s. So unabashedly hairy, good-looking and willing to show all.

Where did all the green go?

The idea of a mothorhome was just catching on. They were aimed at the young and the old.

An attractive first family.

Roller skating rinks were the bomb as a kid

Erica and Saul

1975 Bricklin SV1

Kojak locations

Why did New York look so cool then? - even some crumby back street.

Delightful, r108. So subtle.

I think NYC looked kind of threatening (in a good way)

and sexy.

West Side Piers.

July 13, 1977

Fuck looting. I got so laid that night.

[quote]Delightful, [R108]. So subtle.

I was trying not to be too much of a DL cliché - everyone else is coming up with pretty original stuff.

"Marriage Encounter" bumper stickers.

Our taste in music was impeccable

Make me look like Farrah Fawcett!

Remember when they revived Life Magazine?

Schoolhouse Rock!

I was young and attractive in the America of the 70s. I loved that speed was cheap and weed was cheaper.

Is she still alive?

The Cockettes

We had the attention span to listen to an 8 minute song.

With a melody

And lyrics you could understand

When I was a teenager I wanted to fuck all of them! Especially # 21 !!!!!!!!

R157 I wanted #3.

Proper telephones. They didn't need charging, they worked during power outages, and they weighed at least 5 lbs and thus never slid off the table and were never dropped. We had this one in red, as shown, and light blue.

R126, I'm curious how your father left the phone off the hook without getting that insufferably annoying "YOUR PHONE'S OFF THE HOOK!!!!! HANG IT UP!!!!!" tone the phone company - needless to say, there was only one - used to stop people from doing exactly that.

When I was a kid I wanted to fuck Pete Dixon so bad!

I win!

The only one I like is the blonde with the tie @r157

It was already posted r161. Sorry.

Mr. Peanut/Lusted in my Heart is a fucking anti-Semite who probably lied about his fucking brain cancer. Go hammer some more nails (and your thumb!), Jimmie!

This poster was the 70s.

[quote] Mr. Peanut/Lusted in my Heart is a fucking anti-Semite who probably lied about his fucking brain cancer. Go hammer some more nails (and your thumb!), Jimmie!

Seek therapy.

My first car.

Missy would HAUL.

Saturday morning cartoons

The most iconic horror movie of the 70s.

For r163, you miserable control queen

OMG R159 - you posted a pic of my phone - that died literally today. It lasted 36 years. I'd forgotten until I saw the pic you posted. I feel like crying.

I got it when I moved to America in 1983 and brought it back to England, when I came back. The English always admired it. - I mentioned this on a thread a few weeks ago, in fact.

I don't know how I'll ever fix it. The buttons play a weird sound when you press them - a sort of "I give up" sound.

When I was a kid I always thought if I ever live in America I'll get one of those phones, in red...and I did and it died...today.

One love that is shared by two...

R172 MARY!

MARY!

MARY!

MARY!

In all seriousness...if you really want a similar phone, they are still sold in vintage furniture shops. I saw that one and a dial one just yesterday.

[Quote] you miserable control queen

Mary.

FOLLIES!

Killer Car of the 70s, replacing the Corvair which was the 60s version.

I don't deserve all those fucking Marys, R174. Show some respect.

[quote]if you really want a similar phone, they are still sold in vintage furniture shops. I saw that one and a dial one just yesterday.

I'm in England - I won't be in a "vintage furniture shops" in the USA anytime soon.

& ebay sells fakes and charge about $70 postage...and they end up not working properly.

[Quote] I don't deserve all those fucking Marys, [R174]. Show some respect.

Mary.

Free To Be...You And Me

[quote] Mary.

You're too trigger happy with your Marys.

Funnily enough - just this week I decided I'll have to give in and buy a smart phone - so probably no coincidence that this has happened.

It's a new era!

r181,

What do you mean "sure Jan"? I've never had a sure Jan in life.

r184,

Let's keep this show on the road.

I bought my bell bottoms and Nehru shirt here...

R170 what am I. Chopped pea soup.

Tony Orlando and Dawn

The Concorde - Airport '79

he was so yummy!

Apart from the economy and gas crisis EVERYTHING about 70's America was fabulous.

Comics were good back then.

The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders after the Super Bowl wink.

I'm John Davidson. Remember me?

R143- I can tell by the fashions that ISN'T 1977. That's likely the blackout of 1965.

"What you see is what you get!"

Remember the old gay roommate service? The guy used to advertise in the village voice? He was on the upper west side and you would call him every couple of days for new listings.

Like washing your hair in a fragrant mountain pool...

I went nuts when these came out

R203- I remember those. I think they were relatively cheap to buy.

This...

The old Polynesian restaurants were still around...

The most beautiful looking movie ever

underwear ads you couldn't look away from

such simple electronic games

stereo systems - when more was more . . .

Royal Ambassador Service dinner onboard a TWA Tri-Star, 1972

The roller skates I never had

I had these in red, blue, and green. One of my boyfriends said they were what made him fall in love with me. Don't depend on underwear, though. It didn't last.

The blizzard of 1978. Snow days up at the school playground, where they'd plowed it into MOUNTAINS! that we climbed and slid down.

I suppose it's not unique to just that decade, but it's beautiful just the same.

This was everything in the 70s.

Kids, bikes, Farrah

Loved watching these on our one TV set.

R217 I loved those too.

Patti Hansen

The Carter family in the White House — Miz Lillian, Amy, Chip, etc.

Cigarettes, candy, Sen Sen, TV Guide, pigtails

Leggy

SMELL Miss R178!

She's too refined and demands our respect.

SMELL HER!

The Boss:

Would it kill you people to label your pics? I don’t know what half of these are.

I always wore my special Speedo for Battle of the Network Stars.

Family.

Still one of the best TV dramas that ever aired.

[quote] Would it kill you people to label your pics?

IF YOU HAVE TO ASK

YOU CAN'T AFFORD IT

R205-That has to be the early 1970's. By 1978 gasoline was about 65 cents a gallon.

Swivel bucket seats!

Says it all.

A piece of sponge sold 4 million after it launched in 1970, along with the Pet Rock.

I used to love that glass bird that would dip itself in water of its own accord. It just used gravity to work.

R232 that's my bike!

R56 that thing drives like a waterbed.

R56's car actually came in "Designer" styles. You could get a Givenchy, a Cartier, a Gucci Lincoln. They were sold primarily to pimps.

Bruce!

If only Datalounge had been around for Martha Mitchell.

TWA paper stewardess uniforms that matched the style of your national destination.

People forget how huge Elvis's death was in 1977. It really shook the country for months.

enough legends from the golden era were still alive to have significant rediscoveries and comebacks / ie; blues great Alberta Hunter

"Does yours taste bitter?"

Allen Ludden

R235 No, not gravity.

This stuff got me a little high, but I loved blowing this colorful bubbles.

We need a bigger boat.

R248 - This boat?

I wanted a royal family 😭

Dianamite!

The Queen of the 1970's.

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Yes, I was there. I was way too young to be there, but they never carded anyone, well, no one I went in with. I'd always see Lou Reed in the backroom.

LOVED Fiorucci. I used to purchase my black jeans there, so did Bruce Springsteen, saw him shopping there a few times! Drag star Joey Arias worked there, he always helped Bruce.

I still have my collection of Fiorucci bags!

Jealous bitches?!

Friendly gas station attendants. Fill'er up!

Wicker furniture for the bedroom.

Newly discovered diversity and cool clothes

Doggy Diner

Fabulous home decor and accent lighting.

Twiggy!

Mao and Andy Warhol

Go Gay by Helene Curtis

Melting hippie typefaces

Dallesandro

Chrissy and Velvet hair growing dolls. Their hair really grew!

Streaking!

Hot pants

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David!

Shag carpet

Install it yourself bathroom carpeting.

Almost all men who wore Levis did so like this:

Bean Bag Chairs, waive of the future.

Chest hair

An East Coast thing

Twiggy was more a 1960s fashion icon.

In the 1970s, Twiggy was still modeling, then got into acting.

Logan's Run where Grinder meats the Transporter for live hookups. Long before the internet, apps or smart phones even existed.

Gregory Harrison in his prime

r168 DL icon Susan Richardson was on Hollywood Squares? Of course she was.

[quote]Twiggy was more a 1960s fashion icon.

and English. That poster made a blunder.

Glamour in the jet age

R284 looks more 60s than 70s.

THIS is 70s

How many of our childhoods looked like this?

or this?

When Carlton was lowest.

1976

He rode a blazing saddle....

didn't we all? 70s were "perf"

R24 There's a place similar to that in UK. It's expanded a bit over the years but still has the quaint nursery rhyme village with hand painted houses you can play inside.

The car of the 70s

Was The Pacer any good or are there tons of horror stories?

R255 wrong

Oh wait, I got it wrong.

Reposting for r225, who was also wrong

WEHT to Chiclets gum. I used to love em.

Maybe it has already been said, but the most beautiful thing about the 1970s was the MEN! Facial hair, hairy bods, natural look, jeans covering those behinds, boots, There was something about the post-counter culture '70s that made men look great.

Yes you damn slut r297 it’s already been said.

This had an enormous impact on me. For my tenth birthday the only thing I asked for was the book, My grandmother could not understand why. (I'm white.)

Two words...Rain Lamp!

[quote]WEHT to Chiclets gum. I used to love em.

Me too - cherry flavor especially

and these

and these

Clackers!

Headscarves!

Ouchless

It's Not Nice To Fool Mother Nature!

pornstaches

THIS was a pornstache!

I'm sure it's been mentioned already....

The Center Square.

R299 so are you only into black guys now?

Ayds diet candy. My mother always had a box of these in the cabinet. They went out of business when the AIDS crisis hit.

Finocchio's

Harvey Milk, 1930 - 1978. RIP

R258-My mother would go to this Getty station (full serve of course)-there were no self serve stations in 1975 in the suburbs of NYC. The cars were so HUGE in 1975 the attendant had to walk around to the other side of the car to get the right side of the windshield clean.

R297-You would like me then. I have a mustache and a hairy (natural) muscular body.

My NYC [italic]pied-à-terre[/italic]

If you grew up in Atlanta, you DEFINITELY knew this in the '70s. "Superbad!"

[quote]DL icon Susan Richardson was on Hollywood Squares? Of course she was.

Oh, DEAR! Turn in your gay card at once!

It was so weird.

I saw some of this film on TV today filmed in 1977 and it looked just like this thread, come to life.

This and UFO shit was everywhere.

Favorite game show prize.

Wacky Packages, I still have some of mine.

r321 To be fair, our dear Susan Richardson was on both Hollywood Squares and Tic-Tac-Dough.

Game shows.....

R319's calendar of events from the Mineshaft is unintentionally hilarious -- "Matinee Toilet Tactics' -- I was in NYC then and we never went to any of those West Side bars. We were common whores though but we went dancing, Had drinks. It was getting pretty decadent out there as the 70s kind of hardened into the 80s.

[quote] as the 70s kind of hardened into the 80s.

LOL

James at 15

R324: I was on a gay cruise to Alaska a few years back and we stopped in Ketchikan and one of the shops on the Main Street was a Dicker and Dicker of Beverly Hills!

I remember that on Hollywood Squares, whoever the sexy star was that week (say, Charo) would model a fur coat from Dicker and Dicker of Beverly Hills.

Imagine trying to do that today.

I was Looking for Mr. Good Bar, and of course the unknown actor Richard Gere.

Yeah, I'm going to need to swing by Spencer's Gifts and pick up some posters

Lava Lamps

Fiber Optic lamps. At the time, no one had ever seen light at the tip of a bendable surface like that. We barely had red only LEDs for switches at that point. People always wanted to touch them to watch them move, amazed how tiny the pin point of light was.

This color changing clock if you had money.

Pong. The very first video game you could have on your home TV. Groundbreaking! Games on your own TV, what a lucky, lucky boy you are.

Everyone in grade school had a mood ring.

Look at MY new poster from Spencer's Gifts!

The AMC Gremlin. George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton both owned one.

American luxury cars

I remember a new kid in high school showed up on the first day wearing a Wacky Pack t-shirt and woe was he. The whole day people were doing the weird voices on the commercial and taunting him. "And the winner is Wacky Pack t-shirts..."

R333 I still miss Marathon bars!

I got one of the new small Cadillac Sevilles back in '77. Black on black. I was in love with that car.

God I loved Fun Dip, and using the Lik-a-Stix nurtured my oral skills.

Big Blue Marble. I regretted not signing up for a pen pal.

Funny Face

loved how super posh America car interiors were

Does anyone else remember the POW/MIA bracelets for Vietnam War soldiers?

I do R35. You wore yours until, hopefully, the soldier came home.

Long before Google, there was Koogle. The banana was great, though it was all basically paste with some added sugar. Wonder if there are still some jars around.

(being used as chemical weapons in Iraq).

Monster cereals.

The midnight show!

R351- Are you American? POSH sounds British. When I was a kid in the 1970's the ultimate in luxury was a Full Size : Cadillac, Buick or Oldsmobile with CRUSHED VELOUR interior. I really miss those super comfortable cars with the big bench seats.

I was in little league and our team went to Shea Stadium to watch the Mets play. The father of one of the kids drove some of us including me to the game in his ca. 1974 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser Station Wagon. The car was HUGE and MAGNIFICENT. I loved big American Station Wagons when I was a kid.

Prom night, 1974, we went to a midnight showing of......

This theme song and watching with my parents on Sunday night...

Donna and her perfect pop-disco music.

Good heroin.

I have one of those bottles, R361, that has somehow NEVER broken after God knows how many moves. Not many things I can say that about. We used it for Spin the Bottle way back when. VERY Spencer's Gifts.

Pyrex/Corelle Crazy Daisy

r60 and r75 skip to 1:06:33. I've never seen or heard of this movie, but the guy is HOT

Ca. 1974 Martin Sheen was VERY GOOD LOOKING. DEFINITELY better looking than Charlie Sheen at his peak of attractiveness in the 1980's. Do DL HOMOS agree?

Home sweet home.

Remember the uncandles?

That was a much noted event, R367, when it happened. Not much male nudity before then (Perry King came soonafter). AND JMV was a former Disney star which only added to the allure. So great looking and then... time.

[quote]1974 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser Station Wagon.

That 70s Show!!

When people were free to smoke (and smokes themselves were practically free), stylish table lighters were also popular.

70's consciousness

My hippie father was into Hugh Prather's insipid "Notes to Myself" which dispensed such pearls of wisdom as: "To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them." Yeah, right.

Also, on the coffee table was George and Nina O'Neill's "Open Marriage."

EST - did anyone else take EST?

Rod McKuen was closeted back then. He eventually came out. And disappeared.

R372- That wagon from the 70's show was a VISTA CRUISER the car I mentioned was an CUSTOM CRUISER which was much bigger than that mid size station wagon from the tv show.

Cars were definitely big enough for women to pregnant in.

David Carradine in the TV show Kung Fu.

That hokey song Everybody was kung fu fighting

Do they still make those rain/oil lamps by the way?

I have seen them for sale on Ebay. The rain is/was actually oil.

Just checked on Ebay. There are several. NOT CHEAP. That retro comes at a price....I still want one! That, and lava lamps.

The lovely Jeep Wagoneer, in green, of course...

Hanging macrame tables. Macrame jewelry with African trade beads.

WKRP in Cincinnati

That Levi's commercial from 1974. Good morning world. This kid moves along with out moving his legs and interacts with a little old lady.

Anyone remember the double-lettered subway lines?

The Jordache Look. I'll bet you can sing the entire theme without listening. "You've got the look I want to know better ..."

Do those no longer exist, r388? Or have they been renamed?

R389- All those TACKY LOSERS dancing with that HOT woman at the end of the commercial.

r388 r390 Double letters indicated local service. They were discontinued in 1985. So local and express service both use single letters now.

MTM's apartment:

A totally groovy song about your town hitting the national airwaves!

York Steak House - damn, that place was delicious.

[quote]Lava Lamps

R337 - As someone who grew up in the 60s and 70s, I never saw one in my life - yet they seem to be the go-to symbols of the era.

It's very odd.

But I DO remember these >

When KMart's had a restaurant - loved their cheeseburgers and cheesecake. I still remember those chairs, actually.

Scratch 'n' Sniff T shirts.

Even JCPenny had a restaurant too...

Tuxedo T shirts

I used to love Phone Centers,

The choice was endless.

Who the fuck ever had one of these? Donald Trump's mother?

Shopping malls!

Hang out by the fountains.

The future had arrived.

[quote]To be fair, our dear Susan Richardson was on both Hollywood Squares and Tic-Tac-Dough.

[R326], I believe [R321] was pointing out that the image at [R168] was from The Match Game.

r409 All right. Susan Richardson was on ALL the game shows. A girl has to make a living any way she can.

I don't live in the US, and this isn't related to the 1970s, but I find domestic American architecture, 1860-1930, to be breathtaking beautiful - the Victorians, Tudors and storybook homes. You are so lucky!

Pre-Aids sex. Duh.

I think R411 lost her way in the maze that is DL.

R377 We had the Rod McKuen spoken poetry records - The Sea, the Earth, and The Sky.

The Sea started out with "Do you know my friend the sea? He watches everything we do. You, rolled over in your beach bank sleep..." That's all I remember.

[quote]The future had arrived.

R408 - I went to Houston with my parents in 1977 and we stayed at The Galleria Mall and for us, from London, it really was like traveling to the future.

The Galleria Mall again - I remember traveling up in that lift.

They had a multi-screen movie theater - we saw the movie Julia!

and we went to the amazing Contemporary Arts Museum - is Houston still so avant-garde?

for r387

That commercial reminds me of this

Hey Mikey! He likes it!?

“Your Mother Sucks Cocks in Hell”

[quote] got one of the new small Cadillac Sevilles back in '77. Black on black. I was in love with that car.

R347, Jessica Savitch drives one of those Cadillac Sevilles too

I love these cool new clothes

And look at our bulges!

Huge cars, my parents had one of these and they loved it.

The monorail that went through an actual hotel.

There was lots of cars in high school that had lots of these in the back window. Had nothing to do with gay pride.

Feathered roach clips to hang from the rear view mirror of your car. Both guys and girls did that. Sort of signaled to others that you smoked weed without the parents having a clue. Mom and Dad thought it was cute the kids had a thing for Native American art. Some girls wore them in long hair. Stoner Chicks.

You saw these everywhere.

Da Doo Run Run!

[quote][R408] - I went to Houston with my parents in 1977 and we stayed at The Galleria Mall and for us, from London, it really was like traveling to the future.

America led the way in EVERYTHING in the '70s.

That song is shit, R430... and a revival, not a 70s song.

But that jacket was the height of cool. I had one in fact.

R430, did he actually change it from "Da Doo Ron Ron" to "Da Doo Run Run"?

NYC. 1979.

The age of beige and brown.

Rhoda's apartment.

Dying things with Rit dye.

[quote]But that jacket was the height of cool. I had one in fact.

I had a fuck buddy who would have me take off all my clothes except that jacket, and jerk off for him. I didn't look like Sean Cassidy, but I was that twinkish type in 1978, and had that hair.

NY elegance

I was an uptown gurl.

I loved when those big cars looked all beat up.

CRAZYTOWN.

Nobody said "crazytown" then, faux Guy Fieddi r441.

Several posters have mentioned the big American cars, but the 1970s were also when smaller Japanese brands took over the market. Those cars represented a quantum leap in quality and efficiency over the junky American models of the time.

[quote]Nobody said "crazytown" then, faux Guy Fieddi [R441].

They WOULD say stuff like "This crazy city!" ...and "The city's driving me crazy right now!" - stuff like that. "Gotta get my ass outta this crazy town". I remember they did. I'd never been anywhere where people talked about where they lived like New Yorkers. They probably still do.

The dread Toyota Carolla.

My cousin had one.

Was there a less sexy car?

Angie was a top rated comedy and the opening theme was ahit,

[quote]Several posters have mentioned the big American cars, but the 1970s were also when smaller Japanese brands took over the market. Those cars represented a quantum leap in quality and efficiency over the junky American models of the time.

The VW Bug was also very much in evidence in the 70s in America

R443-Most Japanese cars of the 1970's had cramped spartan interiors and punishing rides. They weren't that great. They would also FOLD UP in an accident. I would have felt much safer in a big American Car of the 70's especially a full size GM car of 1974-1976 when GM first introduced air bags. They were the first car company in the world to offer air bags beginning in 1973.

Those big cars didn't protect you in crashes. Here's a '59 Chevy being destroyed in a crash test. No survivors.

Datsun introduced the 240Z and took America by storm.

Went to see a naked Peter Firth in Equus on Broadway. You could buy onstage tickets and sit behind the actors for $25.

R449-First of all what a shame that Consumer Report's smashed up that 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air with the beautiful GULL WING fins. Second of all I was talking about big American cars of 1975 NOT 1959. There were MAJOR improvements in safety in 16 years. Few cars even had seatbelts in 1959.

r445 = Red Forman

Saturday morning cartoons

"Come In Out Of The Cold"

The Ritz Thrift Shop

The Milford Plaza

Christopher St. pier

R456, I remember as a little gayling I liked the first “bellhop” (the one closest to us), but didn’t know why.

That commercial brings back such memories.

a Gino Giant

it takes 460 posts to get to us? wtf!

brave new world

and blaxplotation movies

I read somewhere that Perry King was/is BISEXUAL.

Is it true that all the replacements in Village People were straight?

It's probably been posted on this thread, but I loved the tight arse jeans man wore in the 1970s.

That was NOT typical of the 1970's. Designer jeans of the 1980's were worn TIGHT.

That image is from 1977, R466, and, yes, men wore tight jeans and tight trousers in general in the 1970s.

R456- That commercial is from the early 1980's NOT the 1970's.

Bell bottom jeans were popular in the 1970s, though regular straight-legged Levi's 501 jeans were as well.

I know that when I die and my life is passing in front of my eyes I'm gonna see an image of myself from the 70s wearing a nik nik shirt..

People were very suspicious of air bags when they were introduced as an option and almost no one ordered them on their car, afraid that they would inexplicably go off with the slightest provocation. It wasn't until reports came out about people surviving "unsurvivable" accidents that they finally became more popular. My first car with standard dual front airbags didn't come until 1993.

R471, mine was in 1990 (driver side only).

I have no memory of Susan Richardson.

A story.

Marimekko

Not just girls R428 ! I had pink ones (of course!) that I used to wear with my pink heart shaped sunglassses ! Looking back I was a screaming mess,but I thought I looked divine !

The Moonies cracked me up as a kid.

You know you had one, don’t lie.

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The fabulous BABE.

Yes, it stunk, but the ads were great.

R479 I LOVED my Famolares. I wore them while working as a waiter. Looked so cool, was so comfortable.

La Dolce Gilda. The perfect response to that Jordache Jeans commercial.

[quote]Bell bottom jeans were popular in the 1970s, though regular straight-legged Levi's 501 jeans were as well.

I stopped wearing them in 1973 or '74. 501s from that point on.

DL fav John Travolta

R417, I went to the premiere where Jane Fonda signed these posters for contributions to Campaign for Economic Democracy, her project with Tom Hayden. She looked great even in the fringed suede jacket that she was wearing, must have gotten it back in the 60s...

Freakies!

The Rockford Files!

Billboard's # 1 song of 1978...

EST group therapy.

This was my first new car I was the first person in my family to buy a foreign car, it was made in Germany and was so much fun to drive.

[R493] my mother did that cult in the 70’s and then went completely off the rails.

R484, a Travolta Saturday Night Fever image deserves not to be static

my first car...

Kinda young, kinda now, kinda free, kinda wow!

Pearl Drops

a golden age when basketball shorts were the right length and good people got to be senators.

est parody - from the movie Semi-Tough.

R55, tennis shorts were the right length as well!

AFTER DARK

R502 - your photo is LAME.

THIS is how tight tennis shorts were in 1978

The beginning of the golden era of nighttime soap operas.

R501 Bert Convy!!!

Okay, r504, let me try again...

Shana Alexander

r504 YOUR photo is what's "LAME."

Good serve, R508.

[quote][R504] YOUR photo is what's "LAME."

NO IT IS NOT - THOSE CHEEKS ARE CUTE

An ass by any other name would smell as...much like ass.

The Two Guys department store in Jersey City, NJ. Their big competitor was Great Eastern, also on Route 440 in Jersey City, which we called the "back highway."

Forgot the image!

RE-POST.

Did New York look like the movies or did the movies look like New York?

It's me, R513/514, again. When my family went shopping I would go along because those department stores were like a wonderland! I would wander over to the toy dept and look longingly at the model kits on the shelves. Or I'd go to the pet dept and stroll the aisles of fish tanks, wondering what it would be like to have this or that particular species as a resident of my home.

The best though was the arcade area. They had this submarine game which completely thrilled me. You would look into a periscope and fire torpedos and you'd see them racing toward the enemy ships and if you hit one there was a flash and it would sink. Not digital -- 100% analog, and it felt very authentic, at least to a ten year old non-submariner.

There was something marvelous about those department stores. But this was before ... well, forget smartphones, it was before VCRs and PCs, for Christ's sake! Everyone has everything at their fingertips these days yet they seem less happy, not more.

Charlie's Angels - THEN & NOW

Great Eastern Mills and EJ Korvettes were a couple of the places where I bought records in the '60s, r515. Two Guys was a distant third, though it was closer than Korvettes. Its record department was an absolute mess—things weren't grouped or alphabetized. Boo, Vornado.

This was between Watchung and North Plainfield on Rt. 22, which we called "the highway." Which was your "the highway," if Two Guys was on "the back highway"?

R518, I always felt a little badly for Kate Jackson, who got stuck with that orange Pinto.

The little American cars were very cute then - MUCH nicer than those awful Toyotas.

I lived opposite an American in London in the mid 70s and she had her Mustang shipped over. It wasn't great looking - nothing like the 60s Mustang.

Beach volleyball gains wider popularity...

By the way, the guy on the right in R523 is Andrew Smith, who also did some modeling in the 1970s.

^^ make that early 80s

Those over-worked bodies and baggy shorts @ R523 do NOT look 70s.

You're right, r526. The first professional beach volleyball tournament took place in the mid 1970s, but the photo in R523 is probably from around the mid to late 1980s. My bad.

r515 r519 Great Eastern Mills on Rt. 22 @ West End Avenue, North Plainfield, NJ.

Woody Allen's late 70s ode to NYC...

One of the highlight moments of the whole decade.

[quote]You're right, [R526]. The first professional beach volleyball tournament took place in the mid 1970s, but the photo in [R523] is probably from around the mid to late 1980s. My bad.

Gurl, no! - it looks more recent than that..including the HD quality photo and the other aspects I already pointed out. You've blundered big time posting that on here.

Looking Good ©1979

R531, according to this website, the photo was taken on July 1, 1986...

They're got it wrong then.

I shall proceed to disenjoy it, r534, because of your stellar work in sniffing out its decade-wrongness.

This was Muscle Beach in the 70s

Muscle Beach was much more fun in the 60s......what with Annette....

R539 Peter Lupus was soooo hot.

Fewer fat people.

Also what people in other countries thought American music sounded like...

Why was avocado and burnt orange on everything so popular in the 1970s?

^^^ Don’t forget the Harvest Gold, it was a triumvirate!

April 22, 1970, the first Earth Day.

[quote]Why was avocado and burnt orange on everything so popular in the 1970s?

and brown and lime green of course.

Actually, I think I prefer them to all the gray and black you see today.

Muscle cars with louvers.

[quote]Why was avocado and burnt orange on everything so popular in the 1970s?

Because the theme of the times was getting in touch with nature, the idea of organic food started to become popular etc. Everyone had house plants, and many of them. Brown was very popular for sofas and rugs and even refrigerators. In contrast if you wanted something more light, mustard or avocado was very pop for kitchen stuff.

Personally, while I know it kitchy to see those things, I couldn't stand those damn colors even back then. I actually like the new slate matte finishes that are coming out on some of the newest appliances. It lets the food shine as the star instead of making the kitchen look like food.

[quote]Personally, while I know it kitchy to see those things, I couldn't stand those damn colors even back then.

My three least favorite colors: orange, brown, yellow.

My least favorite colors : black and gray

Sorry Nixon...

Black and Gray are not colors R549.

Fill in the blanks, r551: "Black is the ______ shade of _______."

R552 went to elementary art school. Good for you. Now when you grow up and go to a real art school you will realize that shades don't have to be part of a hue.

r553 = so helpful

L'eggs panty hose in environmentally unfriendly plastic containers marketed by aesthetically unfriendly plastic actress.

R555 that’s 80’s. Congratulations for fucking the thread up!! I hate you mother fucker!

"1980" is incorrect. This aired in 1977, and is, imho, the best TV commercial ever produced.

Very few things in nature are those 70s colors...thankfully.

R551- In pigment, black is the presence of all colors, white is the absence of all color. In light, it's the reverse.

Also, a shade is black added to a color, a tint is adding white.

Thank you, r560 and r559.

We disagree, r558.....

Earth Shoes. It always felt like you were walking uphill.

Candie's!

Just saw this on a New York Facebook Group thingy.

Thought you guys might like to see it.

1971

It meant never having to say you're sorry -

Mac Davis looking like a hot bearded, denim-clad daddy singing Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me. I knew I was gay when I saw that pic of him.

That idiotic song Convoy. Wasn't there a movie by the same name? There was a CB radio craze at the time, maybe influenced by the movie??

Peak 70s.

And let us not forget the $1.98 Beauty Show.

As a gayling I was so hot for this Camel cigarette model.

Naughty ads that most people didn't understand.

I wonder if there is anyone out there still living in this decade. I have seen online there are these people that own only what is from a certain decade, dress in period clothes, drive a car from that decade.

Yeah, I SO want to buy the quality merchandise of the 2010s.

[quote] I have seen online there are these people that own only what is from a certain decade, dress in period clothes, drive a car from that decade.

Yes. Nutcases.

Apparently this girl thinks she lives in the 70s...a weird kitschy version of the 70s.

A 70s masterpiece.

Some '70s images need no explanation

As a kid, my street was lined with giant trees that cast tons of shade, mostly maples. I went back decades later and they were almost all gone.

Looking through r576 and I am thoroughly impressed. At first I was taken aback as the toaster oven and refrigerator seem to be as dated as the rest of the place. Usually when one lives like this one just ends up with a newer refrigerator and toaster oven. The newest thing I see in the entire apartent is the fax machine in the library. It looks like it might even be from the year 2000 or later.

I wonder why no one makes those rain lamps anymore, I remember staring at the one my mom had when I was a kid and just watching the "rain" fall, it was very peaceful even the hum of the pump was nice.

[quote]even the hum of the pump was nice.

That wasn’t the lamp.

Are we going to need a part 2?

America was so much more beautiful then.

R577, Laugh-In was from the 1960s. A lot of posters seem to get them confused.

I remember that FABULOUS apartment from another thread. I would absolutely move in and change very little!

Myrtle Beach BEFORE it became K Mart By The Sea.

R579, I am also impressed by the absolutely pristine condition of the décor. It looks like no one ever sat on the furniture, walked on the rugs or cooked in the kitchen. How is that possible after > 40 years? (Most of the stuff in the apartment was out of style by the late '70s; it's probably closer to 50 years old than 40.) Were the previous owners collectors and '70s fanatics who acquired pieces in perfect condition over the years and decorated the place to match? I can't believe the wallpaper, for example, is nearly a half-century old. It's in perfect condition. On the other hand, where would one buy wallpaper like that nowadays?

Also, checking the address on google, the building appears to be in an area called West Ridge. Is that a nice neighborhood? If so, I am even more impressed that a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 1900 sq ft condominium sold for only $148,000 less than a year ago. I realize that the new owners would need to spend thousands to bring the apartment up to date, but even so it seems cheap. Is this typical for Chicago?

^^^And how much would you absolutely have to spend right away? I could not live with the wallpaper or the grass-green carpeting, even for a huge, cheap apartment. Most of the rest of the really eccentric stuff is furniture and doodads that would be gone with the previous owners. The kitchen cabinetry is dreary, but replacing the hardware would improve it somewhat. I like the old appliances (assuming they work). Stripped of the weirdness, the bathrooms would be basic but functional.

There are people living in the big coastal cities with much worse for much, much more. Maybe I should put Chicago on the potential places to retire list.

So many men, so little time!

A gallery >

Well at least that last one had a dick.

I love this thread! Can someone put up a part 2? I would do it, but I am at work, and we are about to go into a meeting. Nothing says Friday like a fucking afternoon meeting. Thanks asshole boss!

[quote]I love this thread! Can someone put up a part 2?

I think it's run its course.

Cheesy sci fi

R584 you need to check the dates on Laugh In. It ran into the 70’s.