35 Things That Made The 1970s Unforgettable

[HobieMarty]

I remember many of the things in this video. I remember visiting some relatives in Michigan and bringing a bunch of Pop Rocks back to Florida and passing them out to my friends because we didn't have them where we lived.
Funny, # 7 is a Panasonic 8-track tape that looked like a dynamite plunger. I have that exact player in yellow in mint condition, no box but it does still work. We called them "dynamite" 8-track players. I always wanted my sister to get an easy bake oven for Christmas so she could bake us some cakes!!! Lol.

https://youtu.be/TOFjUYQ2rg0?si=HXe2ZnpJTai33zz5

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[MMiller]

Sorry you're not feeling well but have enjoyed your 70's flash backs!

[HobieMarty]

Originally Posted by MMiller

Sorry you're not feeling well but have enjoyed your 70's flash backs!

Haha, thanks. The 70s and 80s were a blast. Glad you have enjoyed traveling back in time.
By the way, here is my Panasonic 8-track tape player, just like the one shown in the video.

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[jyl]

I totally missed the 8 track. Never had one, never used one much. By the time I was paying attention to such things, tape meant cassette tape.

[sc_rufctr]

I remember Pet Rocks and the "Bay City Rollers".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_City_Rollers

[LWJ]

8 tracks sucked. A lound CHUNK right in the middle of a song when it switched tracks.

Dad had a 69 C20 with a hot 327, a painting of the apocalypse (I think??? Never quite certain) on the glove box and a ratty old 8 track.

I welcomed cassettes.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by jyl

I totally missed the 8 track. Never had one, never used one much. By the time I was paying attention to such things, tape meant cassette tape.

Got my license in '76 ... a Pioneer Super Tuner 8-track went in my dad's Cougar. When I went to college, I left MY teen collection with my older sister....

With Jensen Tri-axials ....

At home.... 8-tracks through headphones .... a non-stop Allman Brothers loop ... all night long

My older sis had albums when I was an early teen...

I grew up on 8-tracks ... then pre-recorded cassettes, Maxell recordings, albums, CDs, then recording shows on DAT & mastering to CD, etc.

I don't miss 8-tracks ... and pre-recorded cassettes .... I have started tossing college cassettes too ...

Anybody need a HEAVY top-of-line Sony Betamax tape deck? Like new

[KFC911]

Freakin' Disco

[Dixie]

Originally Posted by KC911

Freakin' Disco

Lol, I loved disco! That and dancing, winged hair, cowl neck sweaters, bell bottoms, Von Furstenberg dresses, and silver Trans Ams.

[herr_oberst]

So much great music, so many cool cars, loads and loads of fantastic movies, literature, art....

and this! (from a Sears catalog, if I'm not mistaken...)

Who the f bought this s?

[GH85Carrera]

My favorite part of the 70's was the miniskirts! At my high school the girls had to have the skirt come down to where their thumbs are with their arms relaxed at their sides. Now, stand up, put your arms to your sides, and relax. See where your thumbs are. That was the hem line! At a teen age male it was distracting, but wonderful viewing.

One thing I HATED was the stupid bell bottoms and elephant legs bottoms to jeans. I had to buy Levi 501s to have normal leg jeans, and I hated those damn buttons when I needed to use the restroom.

I had a a bunch of 8-track tapes and I did not miss them when they went away. Lots of cross talk, and they would break and they were very difficult if not impossible to repair.

The era before the deadly diseases like Hepatitis and AIDS in which the free love was a good time.

I did have a Lime Green Leisure suit. I did not miss that ugly thing.

[DWBOX2000]

Though I wsd born in the 1970’s I do remember thick wall to wall carpeting and the Saturday night Fever sound track quite well. 8 track of course.
Oh, and Star Wars..

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by LWJ

8 tracks sucked. A lound CHUNK right in the middle of a song when it switched tracks.

The Queen of Light took her bow
And then she turned to go
The Prince of Peace embraced the gloom
And walked the night alone
Oh, dance in the dark CHUNK of night
Sing to the morning light
The dark Lord rides in force tonight
And time will tell us all

The Battle of Evermore as my friend Bruce with the tape decks and my Buick 8 Track player taught me.

[HobieMarty]

Yeah, 8- track tapes did suck when the songs would be interrupted by the track changing.
As for disco, I hated it back then because it just wasn't cool, but now I can appreciate some of it, like KC and the Sunshine Band, and even some of the Bee Gees songs. Some disco songs have a cool bass line and sound funky, and I can dig that!!! Groovy man!!!

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[wdfifteen]

The 70s were just a blur for me. I was working my way through college, helping raise my step-son, restoring a house, restoring/caring for 2 Porsches - I was too busy to think of pop culture and too poor to buy any of the cars. They were all crap anyways, as I recall.

[red 928]

it wasn't necessarily the disco music that drew so much ire,
Most of the music wasn't bad.
it was the lifestyle and sub-culture that came along with the music
and was incessantly forced on the country that
drew so much resentment.

Some of the guilty just saw an opportunity to capitalize
on it and make a buck,
others saw it as a social engineering movement.
Either way it was artificial.

At first most people said that's kind of cool I guess,
Not my thing but they can do what they want.
Then as it grew it was oh well, just ignore it and it'll go away.
But by then it was everywhere, it was not possible to ignore it.
So the people got sick if it and pushed back and revolted.
They said NO MORE!
As we have been known to do
Happy liberation day.

[Dixie]

Originally Posted by red 928

So the people got sick if it and pushed back and revolted.
They said NO MORE!

I must have lived through a different '70s, 'cause I don't remember any of your post happening. I remember Watergate, Vietnam ending, Three Mile Island, and the women's rights moment (including women finally able to open a bank account on their own). I remember The Partridge Family, Eagles, Jackson Browne, disco, and the birth of punk. I recall watching Rockford Files, Charlie's Angels, Easy Rider, MASH, and Star Wars.
I also vividly remember my Mamma tearing up the day Elvis died.

...And I remember being in the back of a blue Pinto after seeing the midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

[herr_oberst]

I'll bet the back of that blue Pinto was on fire, and not because of exploding fuel tanks.

The Who set the Guinness World Record for the loudest concert in history on May 31, 1976 at their performance at The Valley in London. The band's sound was measured at 126 decibels, 105 feet from the speakers. The record stood for almost a decade.

[oldE]

Watched the video, Viewmasters, drive ins, spirograph and easybake ovens were around long before the 70s.

Best
Les

[masraum]

I couldn't handle the sound in the video. I watched a few mins.

I was born in 70, so I definitely remember the 70s, but was pretty young to remember a lot. I don't remember 8 tracks. In '81, my parents bought a '78 thunderbird that had one in it when purchased, but dad swapped that for a cassette deck pretty quickly.

As a kid I remember Tang, and remember hearing something about astronauts, but to me it was basically like a tasty orange flavored koolaid sort of thing.

Another memory that I have is of the "carnation instant breakfast" mixes. Often several flavors per box. As a kid, to me, it was just different flavors of milk, but I liked it.


I was never a fan of TV dinners. I do remember the Chef Boyardee pizza kits. That was how we usually had pizza, usually with ground beef. I think those are still available/sold.