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In reply to the discussion: What do you remember most about the 70's? [View all]malthaussen
(17,301 posts)79. I could go on a long rant here, but I'll just suggest...
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... that the demonization of the '70s has more to do with the reactionaries post 1980 trying to wipe out all progress than with any particular problems with the 70s. After all, things had to have gone to hell, or Saint Ronnie wouldn't get the credit for rescuing us.
-- Mal
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waltons was huge hit. recently saw some of the later shows as the kids became adults
Liberal_in_LA
Jun 2015
#12
I loved disco music and still do. Give me the Beegees any day. I also like the clothes -- peasant
Nay
Jun 2015
#107
Yes - I was in college and we'd all get together after class to watch the hearings
csziggy
Jun 2015
#30
I remember the birth of my second daughter then, and my entry to nursing school!
CaliforniaPeggy
Jun 2015
#6
Thurman Munson dying. I was just about 5. That's my earliest significant memory. (eom)
StevieM
Jun 2015
#9
+1....you had everything from Motown to Manilow.....from ACDC to Seals and Crofts.
yourout
Jun 2015
#115
My 2 sons have always said they were envious of us for the great music back then.
dixiegrrrrl
Jun 2015
#119
Easy times. Playing with friends. Bell bottoms and cords. Hairy people. Bubblegum pop and disco.
Arugula Latte
Jun 2015
#17
Very good discription of the time - exuberance. We were so hopeful even though we were still in
jwirr
Jun 2015
#135
That was the best part of it for me. The rest, politics, war, music, work and death.
freshwest
Jun 2015
#38
4 Finger sacks of weed for $20!!! Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, AC/DC, Ozzy, Nixon leaving office...
Ghost in the Machine
Jun 2015
#44
I was in my 20's in the 70's, and I remember a lot of great music, meeting the love of my life,
secondwind
Jun 2015
#45
The Watergate Hearings were must-see TV. We got rid of Richard Effing Nixon. My 2 kids were born.
Hekate
Jun 2015
#46
Had an English teacher around the same time who mandated "Ms" or her first name.
malthaussen
Jun 2015
#83
Oct. 2, 1973-the day I stood outside the main gate of MacGuire AFB a free man.
hobbit709
Jun 2015
#64
Fathom Events, Turner Classic Movies Bring JAWS Back To The Big Screen June 21 and 24
Omaha Steve
Jun 2015
#68
Being introduced to Andre (Mary) Norton science fiction/fantasy novels.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Jun 2015
#80
Being on strike for seven months, then moving into my new house during the strike!
dmosh42
Jun 2015
#98
Childhood; school. The space programme and especially the Apollo 13 near-disaster;
LeftishBrit
Jun 2015
#163
Everything I know about the '70s comes secondhand, from music, movies, and TV.
True Blue Door
Jun 2015
#193
A few more things: "Bicentennial Moments" on TV, and really the whole Bicentennial hoopla
Arugula Latte
Jun 2015
#196