I was too. When I think back of all the stuff you could do and not be put on psychiatric meds or get a criminal record it is amazing. Going out Saturday morning on my bike and not having to be home until the 6 pm siren went off.

There were issues obviously but when you compare all the "terrorist" red flags now compared to the PLO, FALN and the "Carlos The Jackal" crap back then, we are lightyears worse now.

You know what they say, "If you remember the '70's,  you weren't there."

Can’t speak a word when your full of ludes

Pretty cool. 255 were built for the US across the entire Charger line in 1971.

EVERYBODY smoked.

Ashtrays were everywhere.

My dentist used to smoke while doing my teeth.

Every office had a blue haze.

Bars were absolutely choked with smoke.

Less fatties, but then again, you can ignore fatties, you can’t ignore how nasty your hair and clothes would smell after a trip to the bank/office/everyfuckingwhere.

Edie Sedgwick was the predecessor to Twiggy through a combination of blue blood, junk and speed…that was the 60’s…

Cars from 1970:

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1979, paid $900.

Saw Boston in concert during the tour after the 'Boston' album was released.  Saw Bruce Springsteen after the release of the 'Born to Run' album and before he started to do early sell-outs.  Got decent tickets the day of the concert.  Saw Lynard Skinner before the plane crash.  There was enough decent 70s music to allow you to avoid the trash.

Concerts were a lot of fun.  Indoor cigarette smoking in your seat.  Joints lit and passed around.  Lots of hot young ladies.  Alas, I was faithfully married at the time.  

It was pretty nasty in start, but winding down into the 80's were the better half.

Nothing in the world better than an American 80's girl.

Elizabeth Warren?

Well it’s white and calls itself Cherokee…

Dude was married to Farrah Fawcett, he was the shit.

Skinny girls with bad complexions and giant bush. Seriously, that's what the 70's were.

Watch some 70's porn. They didn't do oral, and when they did it looked half hearted like they were coked up and going to puke.

That's 70's culture, for real.

The '70s? Let's see,
Got married (still married - soon 50 years),
Worked at a gas station to put us through college,
We had our kids,
Drove a '66 VW Beetle,
Started my career at a hospital and worked there 40+ years.

Yeah, the '70s were good.

Not all the music sucked and a lot stood the test of time. My 17 y/o with the record she brought home the other night. Now I need to get a turntable.

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My first new muscle car was a 1973 Mustang Mach 1 with 351 Cleveland.  The Cleveland was a solid performer but some crackpot said we were going to be in a new ice age in 10 years (or so) and everybody was going to die.  

So the retards in DC passed a law that cars had to have all this equipment to reduce emissions and therefore, my car had something like 12 horsepower and performed like crap.  

So, other than 1970-1972, inclusive, yeah, the cars sucked.

That Charger is a '68

Wow, 255 is way more than I would've guessed. I've only seen two! lol

I remember when my parents bought a calculator.  That’s how advanced home technology was.  The 70s was the last laid back decade.  US cars were generally crappy but definitely Good times

What we considered an average person weight wise today was considered a fat disgusting slob to be ridiculed back then. New cars in the late 70's sucked but there were a ton of cheap early 70's muscle cars that a highschool kid working a minimum wage job could buy. Disco was an abomination but there was some awesome rock out there. I'd rank the 80's #1 one by far, the 70's #2 and the 90's, which sucked far worse than the 70's and was a shitty depressing time, a distant #3.

The Datsun Z cars were fine. Reliable and sporty but not very powerful. Still fun to drive.

@p3590

The thing that this thread reveals is how much 1984 is a prophecy. There are people that actually think we are in the best times.

We have a president with dementia who apparently poops his pants and there is little to no outage in the media, it's forbidden in fact.

We give drivers licenses and voting right to illegal aliens who, unlike citizens, are not required to have insurance on their vehicles. This is all normal and accepted in these "better" times.

CRT is taught in schools. Not much else is taught. People don't even know how many stars are on the flag or how many states there are.

I guess people forgot how awesome California was. There was muscle beach and silicone valley. Now there are illegals and poop. And rolling blackouts. And fires destroying trees hundreds of years old because managing forests is politically incorrect.

We had industry in the country. There was a textile mill or some other industry in every small southern town. Now there are methbillies.  

The fiasco in Afghanistan makes the Carter bugaboo a non issue. There's not room or time to list it all but again, it's accepted, it's treated as normal, and the only people that have suffered any consequences are the ones that spoke out. The ones that caused it are still raking in the dough.

Diversity. We didn't have it, not by today's definition. It wasn't even in the language. Our neighbors had the same values we did. We knew our neighbors. Kids played in the streets together. They rode bikes all over hells half acre. After watching cartoons of course. They have been deemed politically incorrect and removed.

There weren't food stamps there was commodity food. You got staples and had to cook  it yourself.

Teens had jobs. We all had jobs. We had checking accounts and learned to manage our money because when we graduated HS we moved out. It didn't matter that it was a shitty apartment or house because we were on our own. It was ok to be poor for a few years because we knew we had a future.

And this is another important distinction: there were good poor people and bad poor people. It was possible to be poor, yet live in a safe neighborhood. Being poor wasn't an excuse to be a criminal.

Speaking of criminals, they were locked up. There was a thing called vagrancy laws which is why there weren't tent cities.

I notice that all the posters claiming today is the apex and the 70's and 80's were bad can't really give any reasons besides ugly furniture and cars, as if that's the only thing that matters.

Of all the many things that piss me off the revisionist past pisses me off the most. It's a movement straight out of 1984 because if we can't remember what and how things were better, we accept the current shit show we live in now as normal and we don't do anything to change it.

It's also why I laugh at the preppers and people that think we are going to rise up with our gUnZ and take the country back. The time for that came and went. Our guns are toys we fondle while we fantasize on our couch watching red dawn reruns. Whatever is happening isn't something that can be fought with guns and we've already lost the ability to recognize that and we are too lazy to get involved, that's why we are in the shape we are now.

No, things weren't perfect, they never are. But they were a hell of a lot better than the nightmare we live today.

Oh, and your stupid open floor plan house looks stupid. It looks like one big room with wasted space of a high ceiling. Someday people are going to laugh and throw up a few walls.

So you think the best time was when the Assault Weapons Ban was passed?

You have fire marshal Bill avatar and you’re making fun of old stuff?  LMAO

Getting busted with alcohol or weed in the car usually resulted in a stern talking to and a long walk home.

You're speaking of it like a teenager with no responsibilities is visiting the 70's.

Wanna talk about it like a 45 year old guy with a job and responsibilities? Entirely different decade then.

The 70's was a time when the United States was still America.

Damn, my father had that same exact GTO.  It was fun to ride in it as a kid.  He even let me drive it...

A dismal, dirty, crime infested, malaisey, incompetent and shitty America that elected Jimmy Carter, lost the Vietnam war, had a crap economy, couldn't build anything worth a good shit, and had the aesthetics of a drunken trailer park manager....but you are right, that it was America through and through and the commies hadn't captured all our institutions.

Totally agree.

Want to see 70’s decor in a house?

Go to Graceland.

Perfect example, and it looks like piled on shit.

OP, don't be afraid to get a little dirty now and then.  

Same.

The music was fantastic and, except for the dirty hippies, we were still America too.

I'm not a huge 70's fan, but the 70's was the height of stereo receivers. They put some fantastically beautiful looking and sounding units.

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What they don't tell you is, it's because everyone smoked.

Yes they were awful. Just keep thinkin that, lol .

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70s gross? Yes it was.

I still have one of those.....still works pretty good.

Yup.

The brown was from the 70s. It just hung around into the 80s. Heck, when I was in college in the 90s, one of the apartments I moved into had brown shag carpet in one room and orange in another (with that faux wood paneling everywhere). Probably why the rent was cheap

Sorry you weren't getting laid.

I will take a 1970 Chevelle, please.

Charger is a '68

1970 Chevelle SS LS6 454 says you're full of shit.