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The 1970's: what do you remember?
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Wearing canvas Converse shoes to school.
Learning the stick on my Dad's 1964 Ford Falcon.
Gulf gas stations.
Rocking and rolling with Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Taking my driving test with a Rambler and the gas pedal hung.
Listening to Casey Kasem and the top 40 every Saturday night on my transistor radio.
Streaking! Ray Stevens had people all over the country doing it.
Learning the stick on my Dad's 1964 Ford Falcon.
Gulf gas stations.
Rocking and rolling with Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Taking my driving test with a Rambler and the gas pedal hung.
Listening to Casey Kasem and the top 40 every Saturday night on my transistor radio.
Streaking! Ray Stevens had people all over the country doing it.
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Star Wars
What do I remember? The total lack of respect towards our military.
Circular rope rugs,
shag carpet,
my dad's lamp chop side burns,
radar detectors that were about the size of a small toaster.
Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.
shag carpet,
my dad's lamp chop side burns,
radar detectors that were about the size of a small toaster.
Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.
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Had a bad lottery number, but then a 'cold warrior'-worked out OK. My '70 Z28. Still liked much of the music. More schooling=nobody 'carried' you back then-do it or get bounced. Great Japanese motorcycles. I liked the 60's a bit more.
Some of the best music ever written..Van Halen I and II, Queen, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC with Bon Scott, Frampton Comes Alive, REO Speedwagon with Gary Richrath, Skynyrd before the plane crash, Zepplin, Bad Company, early Rush, The Eagles, Rod Stewart, way too many to list.
I remember Walter Cronkite "and that's the way it is" and seeing the "In The News" news clips during Saturday Morning cartoon commercials. I remember the oil embargo and Watergate but I did not understand either one, I was only 10 years old at the time. Big Wheel, GI Joe, reading my older brother's Sgt. Rock comic books, going to the book store with my grandfather, he loved to read the Louis L'Amour westerns, he had to quit school in the third grade to go to work in a cotton mill. He was a tough old bird who taught himself to read and write and he eventually became a Deputy Sheriff. He and I would watch Gunsmoke together every Monday night.
I remember there was a blizzard in '73 or '74 and we had 16 inches of snow where I lived in Macon, Georgia. My mother was a nurse at the city hospital and the National Guard came by our house and took her to work in the back of a deuce and a half.
The 70's were a great time to be a kid. I remember James Bond movies and Star Wars at the theater, summers going to day camp and having a ball at the lake my church owned. Baseball and football games with the neighborhood kids. I still remember how my mother knew all the other kids' parents and she knew who I was friends with and she never had to worry about me when I went outside to play. She and my grandfather taught me to respect my elders, study and pay attention at school and to be a good and decent person. Later in the 70's I discovered rock and roll and began noticing girls, then I really got interested in cars. It did not matter what car it was, either. One very vivid memory is the purple and green Mopar Wing Cars sitting on the lot across the street from my church. I liked those because they had the Road Runner emblems. My interest in cars started there and is still with me today.
I remember Walter Cronkite "and that's the way it is" and seeing the "In The News" news clips during Saturday Morning cartoon commercials. I remember the oil embargo and Watergate but I did not understand either one, I was only 10 years old at the time. Big Wheel, GI Joe, reading my older brother's Sgt. Rock comic books, going to the book store with my grandfather, he loved to read the Louis L'Amour westerns, he had to quit school in the third grade to go to work in a cotton mill. He was a tough old bird who taught himself to read and write and he eventually became a Deputy Sheriff. He and I would watch Gunsmoke together every Monday night.
I remember there was a blizzard in '73 or '74 and we had 16 inches of snow where I lived in Macon, Georgia. My mother was a nurse at the city hospital and the National Guard came by our house and took her to work in the back of a deuce and a half.
The 70's were a great time to be a kid. I remember James Bond movies and Star Wars at the theater, summers going to day camp and having a ball at the lake my church owned. Baseball and football games with the neighborhood kids. I still remember how my mother knew all the other kids' parents and she knew who I was friends with and she never had to worry about me when I went outside to play. She and my grandfather taught me to respect my elders, study and pay attention at school and to be a good and decent person. Later in the 70's I discovered rock and roll and began noticing girls, then I really got interested in cars. It did not matter what car it was, either. One very vivid memory is the purple and green Mopar Wing Cars sitting on the lot across the street from my church. I liked those because they had the Road Runner emblems. My interest in cars started there and is still with me today.
Originally Posted By: jcwit
What do I remember? The total lack of respect towards our military.
I still despise "Hanoi Jane".
What do I remember? The total lack of respect towards our military.
I still despise "Hanoi Jane".
Working for Burroughs and dismantling Univac punch card systems that were replaced by Burroughs equipment. My wife and I were married and bought our first home for $3,600. I had a 1972 Maverick in Grabber Orange and my wife had a 1973 Caprice. Both were well rusted by the end of the decade.
We started discussing the possibility of starting my own business in the late 1970's-that became a reality in 1982.
Originally Posted By: PandaBear
Sounds like everything is 1/10 of today's price.
Including wages.
We started discussing the possibility of starting my own business in the late 1970's-that became a reality in 1982.
Originally Posted By: PandaBear
Sounds like everything is 1/10 of today's price.
Including wages.
The 1970's: what do you remember?
I remember I liked the 60's better.
I remember I liked the 60's better.
A 1972 Corvette I ordered for a little over $7,000.
Originally Posted By: 02SE
Originally Posted By: jcwit
What do I remember? The total lack of respect towards our military.
I still despise "Hanoi Jane".
The war was a mistake. We really had no plan to win the war. 65,000 GIs died. Another 65,000 have committed suicide since the war ended.
Originally Posted By: jcwit
What do I remember? The total lack of respect towards our military.
I still despise "Hanoi Jane".
The war was a mistake. We really had no plan to win the war. 65,000 GIs died. Another 65,000 have committed suicide since the war ended.
Thanks for the memories folks.
Originally Posted By: PandaBear
Originally Posted By: OneEyeJack
Purchased a new home for $18K. Payments with no down on the GI bill for less than $200 a month. Paid off in 1990's. Today it's worth $510K based on recent appraisal.
Purchased a 1970 Ford E-300 short wheelbase, 302 V8, 3-speed manual on the column for $3,800 out the door. Paid cash.
Purchased a Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso for $3K and drove it as a daily driver as I started to restore it.
Sounds like everything is 1/10 of today's price.
Not quite. A Lusso just sold for $2.5M.
Originally Posted By: OneEyeJack
Purchased a new home for $18K. Payments with no down on the GI bill for less than $200 a month. Paid off in 1990's. Today it's worth $510K based on recent appraisal.
Purchased a 1970 Ford E-300 short wheelbase, 302 V8, 3-speed manual on the column for $3,800 out the door. Paid cash.
Purchased a Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso for $3K and drove it as a daily driver as I started to restore it.
Sounds like everything is 1/10 of today's price.
Not quite. A Lusso just sold for $2.5M.
Originally Posted By: Donald
Originally Posted By: 02SE
Originally Posted By: jcwit
What do I remember? The total lack of respect towards our military.
I still despise "Hanoi Jane".
The war was a mistake. We really had no plan to win the war. 65,000 GIs died. Another 65,000 have committed suicide since the war ended.
So because the war was a mistake that gave folks the right to spit at me! OOOOOOOOOOookay.
BTW, we "the U.S." was fulfilling treaties that were signed to protect countries in So. East Asia. The Military won every battle, Nixon gave it away.
Originally Posted By: 02SE
Originally Posted By: jcwit
What do I remember? The total lack of respect towards our military.
I still despise "Hanoi Jane".
The war was a mistake. We really had no plan to win the war. 65,000 GIs died. Another 65,000 have committed suicide since the war ended.
So because the war was a mistake that gave folks the right to spit at me! OOOOOOOOOOookay.
BTW, we "the U.S." was fulfilling treaties that were signed to protect countries in So. East Asia. The Military won every battle, Nixon gave it away.
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