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Sanity?
Led Zeppelin with all the members.
Pink Floyd with all of its members.
AC/DC with all of its members.
Jimi Hendrix
Eddie Van Halen
The Doors (yeah, they had their issues, but the music was great)
This list could get long.
… with Orange Sunshine and Panama Red.
It was never fully there, but a solid majority seemed to have had it versus now, where only a very small (but re-growing) minority seems to have enough to matter.
Card files at the local police department.
And card catalogs at the library.
And carburetors on cars.
And rotary phones.
And slide rules.
And REAL lightbulbs.
And Army Surplus stores.
And Root Beer stands.
And my wife’s hooters were 36 instead of 38long.
Gas cans that actually worked before Uncle effed that up too.
And I suspect your dick back then got hard, and now it’s doesn’t.
… and at the local library … which, by the way, didn’t enable elementary school children to sit and watch porn all day on the taxpayer dime …
What’s the opposite of obesity? Slenderness?
Fags mercifully still in the closet.
All in the Family
Jarts… bring them back so we can play with Fauci and Pelosi!
Toss the darts, treat the wounded, tally the points,
repeat until only one child remains.
No, what you’re thinking of is Axe Throwing…
Kids riding bikes without helmets
Kids going outside to play.
Where I grew up, the slow kid in the town had to wear a helmet. The other bunch of kids, of course not.
Old school unshaped skis and skiers using them without helmets.
I still break out my Volkl P40’s in Vail with a pom pom hat. I get so much love.
“the slow kid in the town had to wear a helmet” Make ANY Sense?
💡Keep them alive until they could breed. Stunningly successful.
A U.S. military that wasn’t filled with complete morons and degenerates?
And us involved in only one war, not 5.
Still one seriously pointless one.
They are ALL seriously pointless unless the enemy is at your door.
The enemy has always been living in the house.
Dial Telephones, and phone booths.
Gotta say I much preferred the touch tone buttons, however arranged. Having to wait for the dial to spring back was a pain in the ass. A nice, very old phone with the feature is an interesting novelty, but not for everyday use. I remember trying to call in to a radio station and having to deal with that crap. Lots of nines in the number as I recall.
Leaded gas, Oldsmobiles, pubic hair on young ladies, real rock music, quaaludes…..
Ha! I was going to say hairy bushes too, but I chickened out. I salute you!
Nothing wrong with some basic grooming, especially if you are folically-blessed.
The hair diaper.
RIP.
Removing lead was a good thing. I’m not saying its perfect. I don’t know enough about the engine or performance issues to comment from a mechanical perspective, but this nation is stupid enough. Having all that lead continuing to enter everyone’s bodies and brains was not a good thing. Lead is NOT an essential metal that the body needs. And I don’t think that its fair to even assess poor performance in relation to lead removal (if true), because if we did not have such a controlled and regulated market in gasoline, etc. we might have had a superior alternative formulation, but as you can see, there is a war on the combustion engine, freedom of movement, autonomy, etc.
I owned 2 Olds, a ’53 88 with a 4 BBL that I lost to a head-on collision with a Plymouth Roadrunner on a hill, and a ’64 Cutlass with a 330 4 BBL. Car saved my life more than once.
Great westerns and comedy movies.
Drive-in movies.
Comedy in general.
Richard Pryor and a time when the word nigger could still be incorporated humorously into a comedy routine.
Self service gas pumps in the middle of nowhere where you could put a dollar bill in like a drink machine.
Bands like Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top or Frank Zappa you could see for five dollars a pop, concert seating or rather standing, that was where the fun was. Drove two hundred miles one night to see Robin Trower and Golden Earring for five dollars.
Not a word about the 55 gallon drums full of ice water packed with individually sold beer cans — stationed directly BETWEEN the pumps which both encouraged and guaranteed drinking while driving?!?!?! A quarter for a beer…
You guys have to miss that!!!
I also miss seeing those friggin can tabs littering the gravel and pavement… the kind you had to rip free from the lid in order to have at your beer!!! Real cans, too. Not the kind you can smash flat against your forehead.
Clean, non GMO, crisp and delicious DOMESTIC BEER!!!
Pearl beer from the Pearl brewery in San Antonio.
Drove from Cleveland’s West Side to Kent State University in ’71 to see Ravi Shankar perform in a small auditorium — no one was more than about 75′ from the stage — for $1.25/ticket. He played 5 pieces in 3 1/2 hours …
Sublime …
Saw the Ramones in a bar that wasn’t even 75′ wide. Had never even heard of them.
Disco
Thank God almighty that abomination is no more.
Henry Kissinger? Checks notes…. No, that piece of shit is still alive.
But his soul is gone….checks notes….nope, it was gone in the 70s too.
A democrat that is not a 100% commie libtard.
No … lots of them even back then … like in the university faculties …
Plymouth, AMC, Checker Motors Corp. , Delorean, Mercury, Oldsmobile, Pontiac
Datsun….especially the 240,260 and 280Z.
An abundance of real men….
If the 70s had all the “real men” you speak of, why are we in such a pile of shit now? Jefferson and Washington had a legacy. What did the “real men” you speak of leave behind?
… and real women … and they wanted to stay that way, too …
Pinball machines
Foosball! I was not too bad at it. Hours on end. Prolly shoulda studied moar.
Each of these makes me think of related items.
25cent arcade games.
50 cent a pack cigs.
Returnable beer and soft drink bottles. There was not the litter problem we have now. Growing up in the 50’s my brother, cousin and I supplemented our limited money by walking highway ditches and country roads, sometimes we made 50 cents a day. Exercising by walking, not an ounce of fat on any of us.
Caucasians in television commercials, sad but true!
And ZERO interracial couples unlike now where it’s 100%.
They are even getting creative with the pairings as likely even they are sick of seeing a black and white couple.
A white guy and a black gal married.
Unicorn level reality.
In the 60s we would walk the alleys of chicago to find pop bottles for money to buy model kits at the hobby store.
Really good sports – 15-round boxing title fights, no wild-card games in MLB, Olympics with amateur athletes (well, except for the commies), top racehorses that ran 10-15 times a year, etc. I miss those days.
Gremlin with V8 isn’t exactly an economy car.
Rednecks .. I miss those guys.
HUGE callout to this site for letting me post without having to have a FaCIAbook, Disgust, Nitwitter, or Joogle account.
Hip hip HOORAY. Hip hip HOORAY.
Thank you sincerely.
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Chemistry sets.
Plastic model kits.
Clackers
BB guns. I know they still exist but when was the last time you saw a kid running around with one?
The suppressed MAC 10 is very impressive.
And the little girl’s two Glocks, one a model 21
and the other a model 48 make me think dad might be OK..
Until I saw the tats….
Beautiful women. They were everywhere. T&A on the TV, nudity in the movies, super hot Playboy centerfolds, pin-up poster girls, or was it because I was a teenager whose D#*! got hard when the wind blew, and I grew up in Central Montana (it was windy as hell).
Farrah Fawcett
Did you know she died the same day as that POS Michael Jackson? Her passing went all but unnoticed. Not this guy though.
If they had had to face the reality of what a child molester he was, she might have gotten better coverage. But then dying of anal cancer isn’t as glamorous as ODing on surgical anaesthesia.
Closet Homosexuals
My first wife…………..
Film cameras.
Lawn darts.
Manual transmissions.
George Carlin.
Rush Limbaugh.
Olivia Newton John
My thick head of hair….
I forget I used to have that. The ladies were jealous of my thick locks.
I kept mine quite long even when that became ‘unfashionable’
The ladies found it irresistible. Then at 55, and beautifully long and gray,
the top fell off.
Bloody hell.
Yup, I don’t get it with the 55 thing. My father was bald as far back as his 20s. Mine stayed around till the mid 50s and shit WTF?
The Soviet Union & the Iron Curtain countries it controlled via the Warsaw Pact.
No one put Elvis.
Mood rings and pet rocks lol
small , cheap pick up trucks. Rust away but fun and useful for 10 years. I had a chevy LUV.
I had a 77 or 78 Datsun 4×4 4 cylinder in Alaska. Truck went everywhere, had roll bars, daylighters and a cb radio.
I had two vehicles in HS (74-78) one a Dodge Power Wagon and a jeep CJ5
Bought both myself. then drove motorcycles in college.
Multiply that back rack times 20 and you have my high school parking lot. Also used for driver’s education for slippery road skills… no light poles or parking curbs. Spinning-out in the high school training cars with your teacher in the passenger seat grinning ear-to-ear as you pull out of a crazy spin is definitely something missing today.
Kmart, sears , wards, toys ar us. Howard Johnsons., Gulf, sinclar, Jewel grocery stores. 727s, caravells, MD11s
My dad gave me his monkey wards snow blower. It was built like a tank and gave a real workout to use. My wife couldn’t handle it so I sold it online to an Indian that drove all the way from NM to Northern Colorado to pay 100 bucks for it. As far as 70s things not around…Clacker Balls.
We had a mall in my hometown (called the Ward Mall) with Montgomery Ward at one end and Woolworth at the other. I remember standing in line with my dad at Woolworth waiting for him to buy an Atari video game console the day they came out. He spent $200.
Pretty stewardesses (Now ugly fag hags, old bags, and fags).
Made me think of the wonderful coach lounge at the back of the plain on 747s. First class had one too, but coach is all I got to see.
Plane….oops
Having my dad take my brother and I to o’hare airport to the farthest end of the terminals to watch planes lands and take off. Then he’d usually stop for something to eat on our way home.
I guess that you didn’t ride a plane back from viet nam. Stewards and 50 year old woman
Home slideshows. Locally owned businesses on Main Street. San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, San Antonio, Chicago, Kansas City, Miami, New Orleans, and a few others were great places to visit. You could backpack in the mountains and find real peace and quiet instead of queues and jamborees. No tamper-proof impedimenta necessary.
$50 used cars that ran & had a current inspection sticker.
Pawn shops with real pre-CBS black face Fender amps for $50-200 depending on how big it was & if you were really lucky a Les Paul Junior or Special for $150.
Bricks of .22LR for $5.
.25c per pack cigarettes.
.25c per gallon gas.
Beer was .35c a quart in real glass bottles.
Nickel beer nights.
Pay phones… local for a dime.
Juke boxes@ .10c a song later going up to .25c a song-5 for $1
Local TV stations. On a good night we had 3 out of Philly, until the local UHF station started broadcasting which made 4. There were only test patterns after about 1AM too.
An endlessly refilled .25c cup of coffee.
Really shitty weed that was 1/2 sticks & seeds for $20 an ounce. That’s 4 fingers packed full on a regular Baggie. It was more a social thing than it is today… doing 2 hits, going catatonic, & drueling. Gee what fun.
Jobs where you walked in, filed out the application, & were hired without all the horseshit waiting. Can you start tomorrow?
Affordable doctors who didn’t charge $65 for a referral, but fixed what was wrong in one visit. Affordable health insurance.
Local dairies & bakeries. Produce in food stores was mostly local too.
Food that tasted good & was good for you without corn sweeteners & GMO shit.
Real girls/women without tats, fake tits, pierced everywhere, & with naturally hairy cooters. Some nights were like being Ramar of the Jungle pushing thru the undergrowth in search of treasure with that Hunkie or Greek girl.
Big paper grocery bags that usually held about $10 worth of food.
1000s of fireflies. There aren’t nearly as many when they’re out these days. Maybe we shouldn’t have caught so many & painted our faces with the glow stuff.
That’s enough. Now I’m depressed.
Griswald- Early 70’s in KY, cigarettes were $1.80 a carton. You could buy two weeks groceries for $25.
You can thank (((The Fed))).
REAL investigative reporters in the mainstream who did what is done on the alternative side of the internet now. This is why so many never hear the facts/truth brought about through real investigation. That is really one of our biggest problems, if not the biggest. The sheep are hopelessly lost in a sea of disinfo.
Common sense
Compound Interest.
Interest rates for savings accounts that had numbers on the LEFT side of the zero, not just the right side.
decimal point
Meritocracy, survival of the fittest, code, honor, patriotism, a free press, division of power, hope for the future, a space program, science leading the way to make our lives better, optimism, strive to make our kids’ lives better than ours, the scientific method, politicians pretending to care, a choice at the voting booth.
Its cute how you actually think we had those in the 70s.
Though I will give you that they seemed a bit better.
Camp Morning Wood closed down for good.
Watermelons with seeds.
They’re only ok if you are at someone else’s house and can spit them anywhere in the yard.
Had to get a checkup to get a job. Gave the doc a live chicken as payment. All good.
It was well over another decade after the 70’s ended that I entered this madhouse but man- is there a word for missing what you never had?
8-track tapes.