What do you remember about the 60s-70s???

[VICourageous]

I remember the Vietnam War, Martin Luther King, Civil Rights, Woodstock, Flower Child, Hippies, Communes, Rolling Stones and lots of Great Music then..Janice Joplin, Hendrix and Morrison dried from drugs. The burning of the Bras, The Drugs that played in them days, Color TV just came out, President Kennedy getting shot, Captain Kangaroo, Sheriff John, Felix the Cat, Flintstones, Charley Mansion, The kind of Cars & Trucks, Schools and how they were ran, Landing on the Moon, 3 Triple Crowns from the Horse racing never to be done again yet, Gas Shortage, Disco came out in the 70s, SO much more..I really Loved the Music back then!!!

Ok Shara & Bonnie come on in..I bet you got some good ones..lol

[weaver71]

I was a young pup in the 70's, but my parents took me to see all those bands you mentioned in Austin, and quit a few more. The boat races, monster truck ralleys were enhancing the tractor pull. Computers started to take hold a little. I specifically remember the invention of dog catchers and city law men. That was a sad day for us all. Carrying a gun down the street with rabbits hanging off your belt was illegal by 1980, so I did it while I could. The old hillbilly ways still existed in the 70's, they done regulated a whole culture to asmililate. We ended up with Red Necks out of the Hillbilly opression in the 70's. All the hippies moved to the woods and fell in love with the farmers daughter. So the hipneck was born of the idealist city slicker and the country mates. I remember gas hitting $1 and everyone thought it was Armageddon. I used to go buy my dad beer and cigarettes driving a full size backhoe down the street, didn't need a license and the grocery folks knew my dad, so it was okay. So many memories, I will surely think of more. I used to shoot out the street lights from my window, we voted not to have pavement or lights, but they gave them to us and charged us anyway. I liked it dark back then, and I was a good shot.

[VICourageous]

Kidnapping and held hostages, I think it was Iran. Watergate, Women's Lib.
Cigs were in a Machine & cheap. Hum much more???

[weaver71]

I remember my grandfather talking, WW11 vet. He said he felt sorry for the modern soldier. He said, "Soldiers don't even know what they are fighting for, at least we knew that Hitler was deserving of our attack, but the young men today don't even understand why they are asked to kill." I thought that was profound.

[dominosarah]

The Hell's Angels!!!

[dominosarah]

FLower Power man!!

The Coke Commercial, I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony...lalalalala

Vic...Gee your hair smells terrific.  Goes real good with your Loves Baby soft perfume all the while wearing Dr Sholls sandals!!

[VICourageous]

HA!! I was going to say the Hells Angels because they used to come up to the canyon. And when the other groups came like the Devils disciples and one other one, oh boy he11 broke loose.
How about those toothpaste commercial back then?
Or that one that said, take it off, take it all off. Wasn't that a aftershave one??
And the computers where only set up so that you had to put a floppy in..No Internet yet!
How about the gas foot petal that was made like a Foot.
And being able to drive around bare foot.
AND when we used to take our jeans and make them into a skirt or the Bell Bottoms where really flared out.
Leather..Lots of Leather fringe..lol
Sunglasses..OMG they have changed alot.
I finally took off my Rose Color glasses..Ha!
TV Dinners were in aluminum and covered in foil so they could only go into the oven.
OH!! Calgone take me Away..lol
Drink coca cola it will give you a lift. That was Way back when they had real coca plants in it right??
The words like..*****-en man, Groovy, Dude, My Old Lady, etc..

[dirtydirk]

  i dont remember since i wasnt even born yet  but 2 name a few  .....Beatles broke up ....VCR's introduced.....Watergate scandal/Nixon resigns....Star wars ........walkmans

[VICourageous]

Hey Dude what happen to my B1tchen-man, Like wow Valley Girl talk..hahah
Cool Man, Right on,...

[dominosarah]

The food we ate was all home grown

Respected ladies didnt wear pants

We said the Pledge of Allegiance when class started.

Manual typewriters

My grandmas Blue Valiant with the plaid seats!!

No power steering and chains on the tires in the winter

[nonights]

The sexual revolution. We started talking about orgasim .... Before that we didn't talk about such things much less have em

[weaver71]

Things are worse now than back then, people used to riot and stand up against The Man. We are in several Vietnam's right now, yet nobody is rallying, occupy wall street was close, but everyone gave up before any change. We stand up for economics now, we used to stand up for justice and peace.

[dirtydirk]

didnt have orgasims ......eeck  what kinda life is that!!!! thats a sure fire way 2 get ur lady friend to come back for more....IMHO!!!

[weaver71]

I don't know where you lived where orgasm didn't exist, maybe people didn't talk about it, but the Kama Sutra sex manual came out a few thousand years before Jesus. My grandmother had orgasms in the 20's in New Orleans, maybe she was just 50 years ahead of her time. Where were you nonights?

[ROSYouralright]

This is a hilarious thread. I was born in the tail end of the 70's but I love hearing about it

[dominosarah]

Speaking of orgasms, "grooming" wasnt the norm back in the day!!  lol

[kuku4kokopuffs]

Monster bell bottoms, paisley patterns, platform heels, adding machines with the crank handle, when calculators came out, the Corvair, slide rules (I still have mine), Brylcreem, High Karate aftershave, Midnight Special, Wolfman Jack.

I just got a new Blue Öyster Cult Tyranny and Mutation T-shirt in the mail today I bought off ebay. :).

[weaver71]

Cool Aid man says, 'Ohhhhhh Yeahhhhhhh!'

[VICourageous]

Oh Yes besides the Bell Bottoms, I used to always put patches all over my Jeans..Mostly on the knees.
I must say I hated the clothes that came out in the 70s..lol
What about all that ungodly jewelry??
Lots of beaded and feather earrings I made. Plus lots of leather work too. Moccasins with nickel heads. (I have a pic of those I made). Leather back packs, skirts and some tops..Oh! Those were the fun days..The 70s..Still young in the 60s but like a dumb shiiit started drugs and had my first Beer in the 60s..Shoot no wonder.....
Every one seemed to be moving to San Francisco.
Hate Ash-berry days..(if i spelled that right hahaha).
Yes and the Cash Registers you still had to count the money back. Most had a handle too!!
Barbie Dolls
Tonker Toys
What about all the Lunch Boxes we had. I wish I would of collect those...I could be rich..lol

[Jade59]

"Yes and cash registers you still had to count the money".

The other day a young person counted out $150 some odd dollars to me as 'one, two, three, four, five'..., instead of 'twenty, forty, sixty, eighty'...

I was so confused, I said, what was that?  He said, 'that's the way I count money'.  Ohmagod!

I macromed a lot of plant holders and bracelets.  Still have the bracelets.  

[dominosarah]

McDonalds was taking the country by storm during the later 60's.  

No speed limits

Riding my bike to the Highway Market to get my dad a pack of smokes

[VICourageous]

Roller Skating on all 4 wheels
School chalk broads where used with chalk to write
Gas pumps had Ethel
Woodstock ( I was real young)
Riots
Someone Famous got kicked out of Vegas..(who was that Frank S??)
NO CELL PHONES..hahaha
Post Office had tons of Letters going out while stamp prices went up
Johnny Carson Show & Ed Sullivan

[nonights]

Oh yeah and Laugh in with Goldie. Way ahead of its time.

[dominosarah]

Ruth Buzzi....she was a classic!!

Walter Cronkite was on the nightly news

[kuku4kokopuffs]

Skateboards with skinny metal wheels. Sputnik.

Stingray bicycles with banana seats and high rise handlebars. And you had to have a playing card clamped to the fork with a clothespin to make that motor sound.

President Nixon: I am not a crook.

The Mod Squad, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Green Hornet with Bruce Lee as Kato, Batman, Lost In Space.