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Thanks Paul! I've been wanting to replace this old keyboard, now I must!
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I liked the early 70s, the mid to the late 70's not so much. - Music peaked in 1973, IMO. I graduated college in 1973 got my first job.- it was nice to have money. Don't miss disco, new wave music. I remember long gas lines. I remember the beginning of the demise of the auto big 3at there market share began to shrink. I saw the demise of the steel industry on the south side of Chicago. I worked in the steel mills in the late 70's and early 80's and couldn't wait to get out.
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I missed most of the 70s. Working my way through college, raising a son, maintaining my house and my rentals, I was so busy I barely noticed. I remember someone mentioning Bruce Springsteen and I had to ask who he was.
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Ah,the 115° weather in Phoenix with a swamp cooler and then the local "monsoon" storms and the power would go out and flooding rain that makes people drive crazy.
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Lots of bicentennial memories, red white blue themed stuff was everywhere including my Harley Davidson socks because Evel Knievel. Watching him break his body on wide world of sports. Riding my Sears purple spyder bike to nowhere in particular. Collecting bottles and cans for which you could get some real money for back then.
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"Collecting bottles and cans for which you could get some real money for back then."
As a kid, myself and my friends would scour the new neighborhoods being built looking for coke bottles left behind by the carpenters. I think the deposit on the bottle was 5 cents, then when it went up to 10 cents, we were rolling in the dough after cashing them in at the local convenience store. Enough to buy a coke or gum, or maybe ride the bike to the hobby shop for a model airplane kit. It was a real genuine micro-economy back then. We learned to do some work for our rewards. Too bad all that is gone nowadays. |
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There are so many things. Putting aside things that are more oriented to my age,
-What is now called "Classic Rock" that demanded to be played at full volume. This also included the revelation that headphones allowed you to play loud music without getting yelled at and, how cool the mixes were in stereo (especially when you were, ahem, partaking) ![]() -Nehru jackets that were in fashion for about a week ![]() -Muscle cars that you could actually work on yourself! ![]() -The speed limit on the interstate was 55! ![]() -Black light posters and mobiles ![]() -Kent State ![]() -Disco ![]() -Gas was 35 cents ![]() -The draft (I had a number but wasn't called up) ![]() -The advent of the "Radar range" -The BIG BAD BRUINS - back in that time, hockey was rough and exciting to watch! ![]() should I keep going?
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Lots of good times:
Good music. Hanging out at the beach. Watching the hippies at Needle Park. Watching the Vietnam protesters on Saturdays at the town hall. Saturday high school football games. Saturday morning cartoons. A Coke and slice of pizza for $.50 Riding my Schwinn stingray and then my Schwinn Continental 10 speed bike for a million miles. |
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I knew some very willing Soldiers in the Sexual Revolution......
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I can remember the first time it cost $3.00 for a full tank of gas. The guy came out, washed my windshield, checked the oil and tire pressure, asked about the family, all while he pumped the gas. Three whole bucks for gas was an outrage. A couple of my buddies could dig in our parents couch to find enough change to pay for the gas to cruise around all evening.
Disco sucked, as did leisure suits. And it was simply impossible to buy jeans that were nor bell bottoms, or worse elephant bottoms. Slacks all had huge cuffs that I hated. The good news was the girls in my high school had skirts that had to come DOWN to at least thier thumbs when the relaxed their arms. Now stand up, let your arms relax, the tip of your thumb was the hemline. Smoking everywhere was horrible. My high school allowed smoking in the bathrooms. I had to run in there as fast as possible after the bell, pee as fast as possible, and it was hard to see to door because the smoke was so thick. ![]()
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cheap old cars
I wish I had space to store old muscle cars and or wrecked race cars Sebring and daytona could supply many locally made due with 65 corvairs at 50 to a 100 each cheap houses if only I knew how bad inflation would be concerts were not insane priced for major groups or scalped one could hitch-hike eazy jobs hired you quickly with out investigations or drug tests |
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$10 lift tickets.
Could drive to Taos from SW Okla, ski 2 days, and only spend a $100. |
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This. We did the same thing with soda bottles. This was in the late 70s when an apt was built at the end of our street. After school when all the workers were gone, we picked all the bottles and walked down to the liquor store and bought candies and chips with money made from our collection. Good times. I think bra less was the trend in the early to mid 70s? I may have been a little too young to noticed that |
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$3 between a friend an myself. We got gas in his muscle car, a 6 pack of Michelob, drove around drinking until league bowling was over then bowled a few games.
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Monty Pythons Flying Circus was in full swing.
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I entered the decade as a ten year old kid....left it as a 20 year old bigger kid. FUN decade (for me personally...due to my age)....but disco did absolutely SUCK
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