The '70s, from memory

[dafischer]

Fun cars were really cheap...
Alfa Giulietta & Giulia spiders, $100 - $300
MGB's and Midgets, same price range
A nice Duetto, $500
A 61 Super 90 356 coupe, $600.
A 66 911 coupe, $700
College from 73 - 78. And a whole pantload of fun stuff that I can't remember.

[Jim Richards]

Hmmm...the 70s. Navy, college, British & Japanese sports cars. Disco era made me blech.

[Evans, Marv]

Memories of the late '60s and into the '70s bring back memories of living at the beach & going to college after getting out of the Army in early '66. I loved the brawless and mini skirt days. I still have my Pioneer tuner and Marantz HD880 speakers, though I got them in the later '70s. Those were really special days.
And yes, the '80s sucked. In fact everybody at the time agreed they sucked from the music to the cars and everything else.

[WPOZZZ]

TV shows were aired a week later in Hawaii.

[rfuerst911sc]

I remember female porn stars of that era were " grooming challenged " and it looked like their co-stars were having sex with a fur coat . Glad that phase is pretty much over . I have good memories of high school and my early working years . Met the Mrs. and we married in 1978 and we're still going strong ! I have owned and let go a LOT of cars and trucks over the years but the one I regret the most was a red Mercury Capri with black interior . A sweet little sport coupe with a 2600 cc V6 and manual transmission it was my first " foreign " car . I really wish I could get that one back .

[Chocaholic]

Seeing Steve Martin stand-up at The Raven (coffee house) in Berkley, MI for $6. Seeing Joe Cocker perform at the Royal Oak Theater (yes, a movie theater).

[ZOO]

Also this iconic Farrah Fawcett poster . . .

https://goo.gl/images/nxmxKc

[wdfifteen]

One thing I remember about the 70s was buying cigarettes locally for 35 cents a pack. i went to New York for a week and Marboros were 75 cents. I swore that if they ever got that ridiculously expensive at home I was quitting smoking. In '78 or '79 I did in fact quit.

[rfuerst911sc]

George Carlin and Steve Martin comedy albums we laughed for hours on end . Thanks to both for making life just a little bit easier .

[GH85Carrera]

The early 70s is when we moved from Hawaii, to Alabama. I went from a pretty good understanding of the local Hawaiian kids pidgin English, to total confusion of the way the black kids talked. I could only understand about 1/2 the words they said. My school in Montgomery, AL was 60% black kids and I ended up with several black school friends.
I will always remember a kid tapped me on the shoulder right before class started and asked me a question, and as far as I knew he was speaking a foreign language. I had no clue at all what he said. After three or four tries, I explained I was not trying to be a pain, but I simply could not understand him. She he tried to speak slowly and I could finally guess he wanted to "borrow" a pencil. He was saying "yagottapinclman" with the words not enunciated. I let him have a pencil stub I had and we ate lunch together for most of the year. I taught him some "really valuable" Hawaiian slang, and he taught me a few of the local "jive" phrases. He was actually a pretty cool kid, but lived on the other side of town from the Air Force Base that I lived on.

It was the era of busing kids everywhere and no kids got to go to a local school.

[astrochex]

Grade school and HS sophomore years.

Riding bikes to school without helmets. Goofing off in orange groves and flood control channels.

Lusting after my friends older brother's AH 3000.

[tdw28210]

Evel Knevel on ABC Wide World of Sports
Tons of fireworks for the Bicentennial
Dirt clod fights with neighborhood kids at the new home construction sites
Riding my 10-speed bike EVERYWHERE in the same gear all the time
Dumpster diving for scrap lumber to build a clubhouse
Conversion vans with crazy paint schemes
Stoner dudes with pukka shell necklaces
Afros on white kids (and adults)
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
The Bugaloos
Speed Racer on after school TV
Schoolhouse Rock
Wanting to run the slide projector in school
Sister Mary Antonio (yikes)

EDIT: Really ****ty skate board wheels.

[Sooner or later]

Carlin's Seven Dirty Words

[Por_sha911]

Carlin was funnier when he didn't have to curse to get you to laugh. Brilliant guy but he sold out and went to profanity to get easy laughs.

[WolfeMacleod]

Originally Posted by dad911

I also don't miss smoking indoors in public and on planes.....

Neither do I.
Hmm. I wonder who's responsible for most of the smoking bans. I'll have to go look that up...

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by dad911

I also don't miss smoking indoors in public and on planes.....

I can remember an airline flight and sitting in the “no smoking” area and the smoking area was the seat behind me. Like them blowing that stinky smoke out their mouths and nose and it would magically stay back there.

[stealthn]

Girls in super tight jeans
Cheap Trick, Kiss, Aerosmith
Fast muscle cars
Cheap beer
Records
Home grown weed

[astrochex]

Riding in the far back of the folks 66 Chevelle station wagon (like this one).

[pwd72s]

A pic I took back in '75...the double nickel and the gas crunch both in full effect in Oregon. Check the lack of traffic...this was I-5 on a weekend. Dark days for car guys, they were.

[tabs]

God save the queen.

I got a Mac mr78, c27 and mc2125 pushing jbl l65's..with a thorens td165...still have them.

Lots of blue eyed, blond CA girls walking around in bikinis in Isla Vista..running Porsches hard up and down the coast highway to that university in CA by the sea and beach.

I once raced a guy in a 69.mach1 from n Hollywood all the way up to sea cliff drive above Ventura on 101 late one night. After awhile you got to know where the chp liked to hide.

Those were not happy years for me..you have to play the cards as they are dealt and pay the price for a better future.