Calling all 1970s kids ;-)

[redrumloa]

I consider myself an 80's kid actually, that's mostly what i remember. I was born in 1972 though so I do have some memory of the unfortunate period in time called the 70's.

Let's see what I remember.
The Miami Dolphins being one of the elite football teams.
Soul Train being a popular prime time show.
Bell bottoms
Brown being a popular fashion color
Hula-hoops
Pong, my first gaming/computer experience.
Captain Kangaroo
Star Wars (original)
Weeble Wobbles
Big Wheels
Hippy teachers teaching how to make tie dye shirts
10 cent refund for soda bottles (which were tall glass)
Snowing in Sotuh Florida (once, and wimpy snow really)

Struggling here, not much more I actually remember besides some personal things. Come on my fellow crusty old friends, spill your memories;-)

[Wilse]

Hi Jim,

I was born in 1972 too.

Good stuff from the seventies?

Hmmm....The Sex Pistols still get a lot of play in my house.
Some of Pink floyd's best work was released then as well.

I know there's more good stuff but none springs to mind right now.

[redrumloa]

@Robert

But what do you actually remember, do you actually remember hearing that music back then? Bands like Venom stared in the 70's, but I didn't hear it until much later in the 80's. I actually remember weird things like when I was in kindergarden a hippy teaher teaching how to make tie dye tee shirts :lol:

[Wilse]

@Jim:

I certainly remember the Pistols. My mum reluctantly let me get a leather jacket and spike my hair, when I was seven years old.
I also remember 'Another Brick In The Wall', although I didn't start listening to PF properly until about 1987-8.

Other memories would be climbing my first mountain and catching my first fish (a mackerel, which was especially delicious).

Like you, most of childhood memories are from the eighties.

[The_Editor]

Hmm .. 70's..

How about ...

Starsky & Hutch

Kojak

Space hoppers

Chopper bicycles

Space dust  ( that stuff you put on your tongue and it crackled)

Threepenny bits

Jamboree bags

Bazooka bubble gum

UFO

The Professionals

Kawasaki two stroke triples

Barry Sheen

Ivan Mauger

Roger de coster

Punk Rock

Get the channel nine feeling !!

Super flying fun show  (spin the wheel dooper dog)

Batfink

Forrestfield speedway

the first Kentucky fried chicken outlets

Masters Choc

Kawasaki Z900's

The New Seekers were trying to buy the world a coke

Brummies

Oxford Bags

Tank tops

Jaws

Earthquake

Battlestar Galactica

Grease

The world was an exciting place

[QuikSanz]

Hi,

Late 70's, Start of Disco. Gag, snort.

Chris

[FluffyMcDeath]

redrumloa wrote:
I consider myself an 80's kid actually, that's mostly what i remember. I was born in 1972 though so I do have some memory of the unfortunate period in time called the 70's.

Seventy Two?? You're just a baby.

Don't you ever feel like you'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony?

I was in the UK myself so the 70's were probably not the same seventies as you had, but there were bell bottoms, decimalization (and all the old people complaining about the new funny money with the hundred pence in a pound and what was wrong with the old way anyay? And metrification which never really fully caught on except Celsius.

The Beatles broke up, then came Wings.

Jesus Christ
Superstar
Walks like a woman
and he wears a bra.

The first two lines were direct from the musical, the next two was how it always used to finish up in my school.

Rainbow (and zippy but I guess that's still around as punky used zippy in an av).

Dr. Who. My first Dr was Jon Pertwee.

Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy on the radio.

Silver Jubilee street parties.

Voyager I and II.

Lot's of good stuff.

[Wilse]

@Fluffy:

Jesus Christ
Superstar
Walks like a woman
and he wears a bra.

I had no idea that existed outside my school! :lol:

Silver Jubilee street parties.

I remember that too. The Queen came to Glasgow and we all lined up with stupid little plastic union flags, to wave her past.

Load of cobblers, now that I think about it. :-D

[PMC]

FluffyMcDeath wrote:
Jesus Christ
Superstar
Walks like a woman
and he wears a bra.

Nooooo!

It's like this:

Jesus Crist
Superstar
Came down from Heaven
On a Yamaha

Or at least it was in my school...

The 70's...  Was born in '74 so I missed out on most of the meaningful stuuf, but I DO remember some cool things:

Evel Kinevel toys - anyone have the wind-up stunt biker thingy?

Raleigh Choppers - My Dad, who supposedly knew all about bikes said they were dangerous.  But soooo cool!  Shame the new rehash has done away with the T bar gearchange though :-(

Kids TV - Jamie & the magic torch, Magic Roundabout, Playschool, Sesame Street, The Muppet Show...  The list goes on!

[FluffyMcDeath]

PMC wrote:
Magic Roundabout

BOING! said Zebedee.
here for more
with a new Movie version supposedly coming soon.

Thunderbirds!!! Captain Scarlet. Stingray.
The Tomorrow People, Sapphire and Steel!!

John Craven's Newsround.
Crackerjack
Noah and Nellie, Rhubarb and Custard.
Record Breakers.

The Two Ronnies, Some Mothers Do Have Them, Citizen Smith, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Dad's Army, Z Cars, Softly Softly, Dixon of Dock Green, The Sweeney.

(And here comes Bod)
Camberwick Green...

And that's just the TV. What about the music!!

Boney M
Slade
Mud
Sparkz
Ten Pole Tudar (Wunderbar!)
Kate Bush and her Wuthering Heights
Peter Gabriel was having Games Without Frontiers on Salisbury Hill.
UltraVox
David Essex
Gary Glitter
Human League
Gary Neuman
Adam Ant
Pistols
Clash
UB40
Buster Bloodvessel and Bad Manners
War of the Worlds 2 LP set!!
aaaaaarrrggggghhhhhh!! Nostalgia Overload. Damn you Red!!! :-x

[PMC]

FluffyMcDeath wrote:

And that's just the TV. What about the music!!

Boney M
Slade
Mud
Sparkz
Ten Pole Tudar (Wunderbar!)
Kate Bush and her Wuthering Heights
Peter Gabriel was having Games Without Frontiers on Salisbury Hill.
UltraVox
David Essex
Gary Glitter
Human League
Gary Neuman
Adam Ant
Pistols
Clash
UB40
Buster Bloodvessel and Bad Manners
War of the Worlds 2 LP set!!
aaaaaarrrggggghhhhhh!! Nostalgia Overload. Damn you Red!!! :-x

Sparkz!  "This town ain't big enough for the both of us"
IIRC Adam Ant was distinctly 1980s....

I have the War of the Worlds on Mp3, I remember listening to Jeff Wayne's finest way back at primary school.  We had a cool teacher LOL!  

[MAD]

Hoya!

Was born in 1975...

70's rule! 80's are just plain crap.

So is punk rock... Rock was dead by that time anyway...

Be funky

M A D

[FluffyMcDeath]

PMC wrote:

IIRC Adam Ant was distinctly 1990s....

Adam and the Ants, formed in '77

Charted in the UK with "Stand and Deliver" 1981 !!

[PMC]

FluffyMcDeath wrote:

PMC wrote:

IIRC Adam Ant was distinctly 1990s....

Adam and the Ants, formed in '77

Charted in the UK with "Stand and Deliver" 1981 !!

Oops!  Excuse the typo, I meant 80's!

[GadgetMaster]

Another one from 72 here :-D

@ TheEditor

I think you missed out Evel Knievel :-P

Aah! the nostalgia.....