also bell bottoms
― Dan S, Monday, 30 December 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
my niece spent the summer in Brazil, she tells me that bell bottoms have made a comeback there
― Dan S, Monday, 30 December 2019 00:36 (four years ago) link
Health-tex, which still exists but w/o the hyphen
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 December 2019 00:38 (four years ago) link
xxxxpost Simon was created by Ralph Baer, the creator of the Magnavox Odyssey, considered the father of video games and who Nolan Bushnell & Atari ripped off Long from
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 30 December 2019 01:22 (four years ago) link
Always conflated that game with the Alan Arkin movie of the same name and figured he flew to earth in a UFO the same shape as the game console.
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 December 2019 01:31 (four years ago) link
High-waisted jeans are already back; the return of bell bottoms feels inevitable.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 30 December 2019 02:53 (four years ago) link
We already had the great Jnco scare of the 1990s
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 30 December 2019 03:42 (four years ago) link
I'm in Chicago and over the last year have seen bell bottom jeans proliferate, though only on women. (I'm a dude but am in fact wearing bell bottoms at this moment, though admittedly I dress more vintage than your average person. Love how they look with heeled ankle boots!)
― blatherskite, Monday, 30 December 2019 23:18 (four years ago) link
do you mean you’re wearing bootcut or full bell bottoms? the latter are definitely more than a little flared
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 30 December 2019 23:21 (four years ago) link
"hot naked swimming in gym class" wait what?
― akm, Monday, 30 December 2019 23:24 (four years ago) link
Full on. I used to have bootcut but figured hell, I already dress like I stumbled out of 1969 anyway, might as well commit.
― blatherskite, Monday, 30 December 2019 23:36 (four years ago) link
A comment on those pants:
Nice quality. Worked great for a Shaggy costume!
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 30 December 2019 23:40 (four years ago) link
remember loving bell bottoms, trying to think of something equivalent to them in recent fashion history
― Dan S, Monday, 30 December 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
"hot naked swimming in gym class" wait what?― akm, Monday, December 30
I was joking about 'hot', but I went from a sheltered catholic grade school to a public high school where our gym teacher made the boys take our swimming classes naked. I was kind of shocked by it at first but got used to it
― Dan S, Monday, 30 December 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
Colored glassware, especially amber or avocado green.
― blatherskite, Monday, 30 December 2019 23:52 (four years ago) link
still serve cocktails to friends in Russel Wright forest green pinch tumblers
― Dan S, Monday, 30 December 2019 23:57 (four years ago) link
Zodiac posters or wall hangings -- my grandmother had a Capricorn tapestry in the basement. Wouldn't be surprised to see that make a comeback, considering astrology becoming a thing again.
― blatherskite, Monday, 30 December 2019 23:57 (four years ago) link
Chess sets: magnetic, Shakespeare-themed, hand-carved, etc.
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 00:00 (four years ago) link
Black Velvet Art, Elvis or otherwise.
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
macrame owl!
― babu frik fan account (mh), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 00:06 (four years ago) link
our house in the 70s had a lot of stuff from the 50s - modern Danish furniture, Japanese lantern lamps, particle board clothes cabinets in the bedroom my brother and I shared
― Dan S, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 00:07 (four years ago) link
Reel-to-reel tape playerAshtraysPoster of Bo DerekFrisbee
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 03:10 (four years ago) link
Velvet dayglo painting of a panther that looks awesome under blacklight = stoner older brother got to decorate his own room.
See also: Skynyrd poster with Confederate Battle Flag
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
a public high school where our gym teacher made the boys take our swimming classes naked
this is absolutely not something that happened in every 70s US school ever
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
Apparently up to 1970 in my school district, boys swam naked.
― santa clause four (suzy), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 03:58 (four years ago) link
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 04:19 (four years ago) link
Xpost, the Farah Fawcett poster was ubiquitous.
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 04:51 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp2ldxIWc54
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 05:30 (four years ago) link
read about Ram Dass's death last week. his Be Here Now was the defining book of the 70s for me
Meh, his Definitely Maybe was better
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
― Dan S
they were back earlier this year at least where i live; it may have passed already though
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
Frisbee
On the roof of every 70s US home ever
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
our house in the 70s had a lot of stuff from the 50s - modern Danish furniture, Japanese lantern lamps, particle board clothes cabinets in the bedroom my brother and I shared― Dan S
This is an important point, that the '70s - like any decade - were still heavily characterized by the immediately preceding decades. When I think of the '70s I remember a lot of stuff of a design reflecting the '60s Laugh-In aesthetic of bright Day-Glo colors, flowers, op-art, funny slogans. Also lots of graphic reproductions of Robert Indiana's "LOVE" sculpture. Stuff like this gradually went out of fashion in the early '70s but it didn't all just suddenly disappear, it remained in people's houses for a while. I also remember in the early-to-mid '70s there will still lots of cars with fins on them parked on the street.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
In every 70s US home, Canadian dept: contempra phone https://www.google.com/amp/s/ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/remembering-an-iconic-ottawa-creation-50-years-later/amp
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link
Josepha speaks truth. People don't suddenly throw out everything they own when there's a new decade.
I happened to see a 1985-ish photograph of a city street the other day and I was like, "why do the cars all look like 1970s cars"? I had completely forgotten that my dad was driving a '77 Mercury at the time.
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
josefa OTM, this is one of my biggest pet peeves in period movies. and one thing I liked about Stranger Things - that the working-class Winona household was less aggressively "80s" in its furnishings
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 00:47 (four years ago) link
my friends were really into the Kinks when I was in high school. they were much more socially advanced than I was
― Dan S, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 02:52 (four years ago) link
I remember the record player at our house and those at others' houses, and the experience of listening to records with friends
― Dan S, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 03:08 (four years ago) link
this is actually why i can relate to this thread - shit, i don't actually _remember_ the '70s, i just know all this stuff from growing up in the early '80s.
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 04:29 (four years ago) link
my goddaughter who is 11 is my sweetie. it is interesting to see how she relates to her world today, it is a world I couldn't imagine in the 70s
― Dan S, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 06:22 (four years ago) link
rushomancy otmI wasn’t born until the 80s but my parents boughtnearly all of their possessions in the 70s and furnished their house after getting married mid-decade
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObdEUA2rwGg
― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 September 2020 14:53 (three years ago) link
"come to think of it many of the clothes on our backs were a toxic, flammable, and choking hazard all rolled into one" I just remembered I used to have pajamas that were 100% polyester and used to get static so bad it was like seeing lightning under the covers.
― akm, Saturday, 26 September 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
In every 70s Chinese restaurant ever: the pu-pu platter.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 May 2021 23:26 (three years ago) link
Pu-pu platters originated in tiki restaurants and then Chinese restaurants adopted them. I don't think I've ever had one, but they sound decadently appealing. Spare ribs, crab rangoon... most people shy away from eating such things today. But perhaps the pu-pu platter could make a comeback in post-covid times when people don't give as much as af.
― Josefa, Sunday, 16 May 2021 04:03 (three years ago) link
*of af
― Josefa, Sunday, 16 May 2021 04:04 (three years ago) link
S&H Green Stamps
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 16 May 2021 14:37 (three years ago) link
Tiki drinks have been making a comeback among cocktailians. Maybe tiki cuisine might make a post-covid comeback, when occupancy limits are back to normal and restaurants want to lure people away from delivery or home cooking?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Sunday, 16 May 2021 23:15 (three years ago) link
Seems like a lot of this stuff may appear in ILX's new favorite TV series, FOR ALL MANKIND.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 July 2021 16:11 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPwxmrNVKKE
This is a huge chunk of my childhood here
― weregoats of boston (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 13 November 2021 00:07 (two years ago) link
Omg. It looks like every single cast member of ‘Dynasty’ also appeared on ‘Love Boat,’ right down to the Carringtons’ butler. That video would be a good cultural reference for young people of today, like say if they were studying Late 20th Century Show Biz.
― Josefa, Saturday, 13 November 2021 00:32 (two years ago) link