When Life Was Real: Growing Up in 1970s America.

[jeff of pa]

 

[jeff of pa]

When Life Was Slower: Memories of 70s & 80s America​

 

[opalboy]

Short shorts! On the women too!

 

[Gare]

I even remember before short shorts LOL

 

[robertk]

Good times.

Makes you wonder what our kids and grandkids will look back and remember thirty years from now.

 

[unclemac]

you could hitch hike anywhere.... every VW was a sure ride!

 

[rginn]

I liked halter tops. On girls, not on me. I should never have cut my hair either.

 

[unclemac]

...i lost most of my hair! but it was gorgeous!

 

[tamrock]

That was my generation. Got my driver's license in 72' and bought a red with white top and white interior 1964' Chevelle SS with a 283 Rochester 4 barrel and powergluid trans maybe a year later.

 

[jeff of pa]

mine Resembled this.
I Had my Hair Before Him, it wasn't to Copy him.
My hair was Naturally Wild & Never Cut through 1st Grade on
I Don't remember ever Having the Sneer though

Now it's about 1 , 2 inches Long & Thinning


I Don't have my Draft Card anymore. Only Place I remember I May have Jeered

Correction LCB Card . it had a Photo.
Drivers icenses did Not in '71
I Burned the Draft Card

I Think in PA We needed an LCB card to purchase Liquer Legally

 

[Physics guy]

I’m stuck in the ‘60s but in the ‘70s I used to commute from SF to LA on Pacific Southwest Airlines. $11 one-way, no assigned seats and the aisle seats filled up first: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=psa stewardesses 70s

 

[unclemac]

i used to put $100 in my pocket....travel till I spent 50 and then head back.

 

[Surf_Pirate]

these people and places looked like home lol.... I remember when they had attendants at service stations still.. great times then

 

[UnderMiner]

Back when the Son of Sam was on the loose, and if you didn't come home before sunset your parents had no way to call you because cell phones didn't exist. They just prayed you would show up eventually or call from a payphone and tell them where you were. Put a washer in the payphone to get a free call, or better yet, just play a tape recording of the tone for a quarter into the reciever and get free calls for life. Such things I heard were done, I wasn't born yet to experience them. Apparently you could also still find silver coins in your change on occasion still in circulation. Probably coin roll hunting was essentially just going to the bank and straight up just asking for a roll of silver coins and getting them for face value.

 

[solder0]

That does it, I'm building that dang time machine!

 

[jeff of pa]

 

[russau]

That does it, I'm building that dang time machine!

Can I get a free ride back to my GOOD MEMORIES These posts got me thinking !

 

[robertk]

i used to put $100 in my pocket....travel till I spent 50 and then head back.

Back when ten bucks was plenty of gas money.

 

[DizzyDigger]

Back in '73 I spent a summer working at a small resort on Donner Lake
in N. Cal. We had a boat dock with fuel, and it was the only fuel dock on
the lake. Our gas was 37 cents a gallon, and people just raised all kinds
of hell about it because it was 3 cents higher than the pump gas in town.

Worked at several gas stations, starting when I was 13. Back then there was
actual service done, as in fill the tank, wash the windows, check the oil, etc.
Ask for that today and they'd look at you like you're crazy..

I grew up in Orange County, Calif., and there were fewer issues back then.
There were fewer genders, fewer TV channels, fewer bras (that was a good
thing), fewer bills (no cell phone or internet bills), fewer morons with guns
running around and shooting the place up.

Sunday nights...lying in bed listening to Dr. Demento on my transistor radio
with that nasty ear plug in so it didn't wake my older brother. As I got older,
that became Koss headphones and Jim Ladd's late night radio show on
KMET or KLOS.

Can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday, but I can sure remember plenty
about the 70's.

 

[AstralDruid]

Hate to take a wizz on the 'good ole campfire' but life in N Ireland in the 70's through to the 2000's was pretty dangerous..
Yes we made do, yes we had haircuts and jeans and all the retro consumer necessities, but not the freedom of expression or liberty that was enjoyed across the pond...
Riding around with your girl, in your first car, trying to avoid trouble spots, riots, bombs and unwarranted attention from the state authorised militias... Totally different ball game... I often reflected how there was no international intervention, not a whisper of it,, our mighty cousins in the country we helped give birth to and fought and died for ..... or our European friends, who again did nothing.. So we stagnated, abandoned and better off not mentioning.. The pretty girls too, looking all natural etc...
Ahhhh if it were only back in the crazy times...
Perspective