The 70's was my favorite decade.

So many fudds back then.

My first concert.  

July 23(?), 1978  pretty sure it was the 23rd

Day on the Green. Oakland Colesium

In order of appearance.....

AC/DC
Van Halen
Pat Travers
Foreigner
Aerosmith

Yes it was a good year.

What year was the commercial that said "who wears short shorts"?

The rest of her looked pretty good back then also. I left for basic that month and missed her debut as Playmate.









 
 

Well, I miss my 22 year old body, for sure. . .but would not want to go back. . for lots of reasons. . . Been through many difficult situations, as I'm sure many here have. . . glad they're behind me. . .

Best time ever. A young Seabee stationed in Charleston SC.

I remember those days.  Skating at the local rink, playing pinball while waiting for the next "couples' skate" to come around.  

That reminds me of one of my Dad's pearls of wisdom from back in the 80's: "The two things wrong with America today are Jap cars and fake tits!"

Yeah, was out of HS & had to try to get to work in that stuff

So so thankful for this.


Safety razor is one of man's greatest inventions.

Your father is a very wise man.  



 

Not every girl jumped on the Farah hair.

They did if you closed your eyes and used your imagination.  



 

exactly, I was 12 for most of 1978, recently switched from nuns beating my ass in Catholic school, to public school, where kids had no idea what pain was, until I showed up. I wouldn't get another good ass beating for the next 5 years.
Someone always comes along that forces you to rethink your world view

I was born that year

Well said.

That was the year I bought my first K98 Mauser.....dou 42.....All matching.....$65.00.

late 70's boxes

im a sucker for those cars. The engines are awfully underpowered and have next to no torque. Love the body style though

Lol, I may have been there.

P.A. speaker: "For medical aid, go to the 3rd base dugout, For medical aid, go to the 3rd base dugout"

I saw quite possibly the largest Bong in the world. it had to be 6 feet long.



 

I was born exactly 9 months after the blizzard.

Ah, 1978.......just graduated from college with a degree I couldn't do anything with.
I thought I had the world by the balls............for about six months.

like this?

http://ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1966

yeah, they were called "WWII, Korea and Vietnam vets"

don't confuse walnut and blue guns with fuddishness

WWII guys liked fancy commercial guns with high polish blue finish and fancy walnut stocks because that kind of finish is "deluxe"

my dad grew up in the depression, he didn't want some cheap parkerized finish on a gun.  he wanted a high polish finish.  those guys called milsurp rifles "a poor man's gun"

nowadays, everyone wants a "tactical" gun, with a cheap crappy finish and a cheapo plastic stock.  they think it's bad ass

I had finished MM  "A" school at Great Lakes while freezing my ass off and was off to catch my ship at Alameda NAS.

It wasn't just a job, it was a fucking adventure!

Yeah, but big block and small block Camaros, Chevelles, Novas, Impalas,mustangs, Cudas, Roadrunners, etc. were readily available and relatively cheap.

I was driving a 66  chevelle SS and a 67 Vette convertible in the 70s.

I miss those cars.

I got out of the .mil in Dec. '77.

Couldn't find a job so eventually went to school on the GI Bill.

.gov basically paid for my drinking and doodling.

Saw some good shows at a local bar. Pat Travers played a night there. John Kay not long after that. Rocking good shows in an intimate environment.

One of the waitresses was cute as a button and played hard to get. Took me weeks competing with all the shitheads.

I was 17. Yeah, I miss that day and time.

1978... My dad was 15 and I wasn't even a twinkle in his eye.

Yeah well sticks and stones will break my bones but fuck that shit.

Ah, yes---those would be Dittos.  

As a young man back then, I really, really appreciated Dittos.  Very popular with our mountain girls...God bless them!

Check out the movie Skateland, its set in the early 80's but it's not too far off the original topic of the late 70's.
ETA: looks like James Dean on that pinball machine

I remember back then. we had some cool cars, far less rules, no political correctness and cops were not the enemy.
We cruised around in 69 Grand Prix, 75 Trans Am and 68 Mustang. Got pulled over once, I was 18, with my 17 y/o fiend and 2 16 y/o girls, all with open plastic cups of beer from the party we just left. Doing 55 on a residential street.
Cops asks why I'm driving so fast. I tell him just trying to keep up with my friend heading to the next party. Cop says, "well damn it, slow down!"  then leaves...
I miss those days.

ahhh 1978 13yo discovering the meaning of life.  
and this stuff was on the radio.
US Top 40 Singles Week Ending 22nd July, 1978

.1 1 SHADOW DANCING –•– Andy Gibb (RSO) -15 (6 weeks at #1) (1)
2 2 BAKER STREET –•– Gerry Rafferty (United Artists) -14 (2)
3 6 MISS YOU –•– Rolling Stones (Rolling Stones) -9 (3)
4 5 STILL THE SAME –•– Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band (Capitol) -11 (4)
5 10 LAST DANCE –•– Donna Summer (Casablanca) -11 (5)
6 11 GREASE –•– Frankie Valli (RSO) -9 (6)
7 7 THE GROOVE LINE –•– Heatwave (Epic) -12 (7)
8 4 USE TA BE MY GIRL –•– The O’Jays (Philadelphia International) -13 (4)
9 3 TAKE A CHANCE ON ME –•– Abba (Atlantic) -14 (3)
10 21 THREE TIMES A LADY –•– The Commodores (Motown) -6 (10)

11 14 LOVE WILL FIND A WAY –•– Pablo Cruise (A&M) -8 (11)
12 9 IT’S A HEARTACHE –•– Bonnie Tyler (RCA) -18 (3)
13 15 RUNAWAY –•– Jefferson Starship (Grunt) -9 (13)
14 20 HOT BLOODED –•– Foreigner (Atlantic) -4 (14)
15 17 COPACABANA (At the Copa) –•– Barry Manilow (Arista) -7 (15)
16 8 DANCE WITH ME –•– Peter Brown with Betty Wright (Drive) -21 (8)
17 19 LIFE’S BEEN GOOD –•– Joe Walsh (Asylum) -7 (17)
18 22 MY ANGEL BABY –•– Toby Beau (RCA) -8 (18)
19 12 BLUER THAN BLUE –•– Michael Johnson (EMI-America) -14 (12)
20 26 MAGNET AND STEEL –•– Walter Egan (Columbia) -9 (20)

21 28 I’M NOT GONNA LET IT BOTHER ME TONIGHT –•– The Atlanta Rhythm Section (Polydor) -7 (21)
22 24 THANK GOD IT’S FRIDAY –•– Love and Kisses (Casablanca) -12 (22)
23 23 FM (No Static At All) –•– Steely Dan (MCA) -8 (23)
24 25 IF EVER I SEE YOU AGAIN –•– Roberta Flack (Atlantic) -10 (24)
25 29 SONGBIRD –•– Barbra Streisand (Columbia) -6 (25)
26 30 KING TUT –•– Steve Martin and the Toot Uncommons (Warner Brothers) -9 (26)
27 32 STAY / THE LOAD-OUT –•– Jackson Browne (Asylum) -7 (27)
28 13 TWO OUT OF THREE AIN’T BAD –•– Meat Loaf (Epic / Cleveland International) -19 (11)
29 16 WONDERFUL TONIGHT –•– Eric Clapton (RSO) -11 (16)
30 40 I’VE HAD ENOUGH –•– Wings (Capitol) -6 (30)

31 33 YOU’RE THE ONE THAT I WANT –•– John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John (RSO) -17 (1)
32 36 CAN WE STILL BE FRIENDS –•– Todd Rundgren (Bearsville) -9 (32)
33 35 PROVE IT ALL NIGHT –•– Bruce Springsteen (Columbia) -7 (33)
34 38 LOVE OR SOMETHING LIKE IT –•– Kenny Rogers (United Artists) -8 (34)
35 58 HOPELESSLY DEVOTED TO YOU –•– Olivia Newton-John (RSO) -3 (35)
36 52 BOOGIE OOGIE OOGIE –•– A Taste Of Honey (Capitol) -5 (36)
37 46 SHAME –•– Evelyn “Champagne” King (RCA) -6 (37)
38 42 STUFF LIKE THAT –•– Quincy Jones (A&M) -7 (38)
39 44 RIVERS OF BABYLON –•– Boney M (Sire / Hansa) -8 (39)
40 73 AN EVERLASTING LOVE –•– Andy Gibb (RSO) -2 (40)

OFF THE CHARTS

42 18 I CAN’T STAND THE RAIN –•– Eruption (Ariola America) -20 (18)
50 27 YOU BELONG TO ME –•– Carly Simon (Elektra) -15 (6)
51 34 LOVE IS LIKE OXYGEN –•– Sweet (Capitol) -23 (8)
57 31 HOT LOVE, COLD WORLD –•– Bob Welch (Capitol) -8 (31)
58 37 ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG –•– Billy Joel (Columbia) -11 (24)
62 39 WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW –•– Dave Mason (Columbia) -8 (39)

POWER PLAYS

41 45 YOU’RE A PART OF ME –•– Gene Cotton with Kim Carnes (Ariola America) -6 (41)
43 63 YOU –•– Rita Coolidge (A&M) -4 (43)
44 49 MR. BLUE SKY –•– The Electric Light Orchestra (Jet) -5 (44)
45 47 I NEED TO KNOW –•– Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (Shelter) -6 (45)
46 53 TWO TICKETS TO PARADISE –•– Eddie Money (Columbia) -5 (46)
47 48 THAT ONCE IN A LIFETIME –•– Demis Roussos (Mercury) -8 (47)
48 56 MACHO MAN –•– The Village People (Casablanca) -5 (48)
49 79 FOOL (If You Think It’s Over) –•– Chris Rea (United Artists / Magnet) -3 (49)

DEBUTS THIS WEEK

80 — GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE –•– Earth, Wind and Fire (Columbia) -1 (80)
81 — TIME FOR ME TO FLY –•– REO Speedwagon (Epic) -1 (81)
84 — SURRENDER –•– Cheap Trick (Epic) -1 (84)
86 — GET OFF –•– Foxy (Dash) -1 (86)
87 — THINK IT OVER –•– Cheryl Ladd (Capitol) -1 (87)
89 — WILD IN THE STREETS –•– The British Lions (RSO) -1 (89)
90 — HE’S SO FINE –•– Kristy and Jimmy McNichol (RCA) -1 (90)
92 — A ROCK ‘N’ ROLL FANTASY –•– The Kinks (Arista) -1 (92)
93 — FLYIN’ –•– Prism (Ariola America) -1 (93)
94 — IT’S REALLY YOU –•– The Tarney / Spencer Band (A&M) -1 (94)

This

We are the same age! I would NEVER go back. I have had a great life! Despite every effort to screw it up by the grace of God things have worked out pretty darn good.

No way am I chancing another try at it.

I had a friend mail his GF a copy of that to break-up with her.....She was quite the bitch.  

Best time ever..to be 16.

Chicks shave their vagina's now.  No reason to go backwards to a worse time.

Yeah, everybody wants to feel like a pedophile.



 

Halter tops does it for me, miss the late 70's.

The Blizzard of '78 was memorable.  The front of our house had snow all the way to the roofline so my brother and I climbed out on the roof to sled off the roof of the house.

My old man arrived in his VW Beetle (a good car in the snow, but the inside windshield defroster was useless so you had to use an ice scraper as you drove down the road).  He said Route 128 was a war zone and there were abandoned vehicles all over.

He went inside, had a stiff drink (probably) and then popped out to yell at us to not rip the gutters off the house.  You could leap off and disappear completely into the snow drift.  It was a hoot.

Then we were drafted to dig tunnels (really) from the front door to the driveway to clear a lane for a fire escape.

The size of the drifts were incredible.

Good times, man.

And just what are you insinuating?  

Go ahead, speak up.

The average car sucked, the clothes sucked, everything pretty much sucked and nostalgia has a way of glossing over all that sucked.  The late 70's are just suck.  Disco, crappy music and bad hair.  I miss me and all those raging hormones however.  I could wack off 3 times a day back then, so yes I miss the 70's.

This X 87.....Nothing like a woman in a cropped halter top.  

I was 15.  Everything was fun

70s Flashback:

Galliano is now sold in small "nip" sizes.  You don't have to buy a big bottle of Galliano anymore, which means it is time to dust off your Harvey Wallbanger recipe:

Traditionally it is 3 parts vodka, 1 part Galliano, 6 parts orange juice.  Garnish with orange slice and a marischino cherry.

Stir with a coke spoon.

Personally I prefer only a hint of Galliano, but that is me.

Stay Groovy, My Friends.

Plenty of reasons. If "chicks shaving their vagina's" is your only criteria on judging an era, you should grow up some.

AND,  the women were a little different then. The clothes they wore were sexy without being slutty. Mini skirts were hot. Women wore way less make-up and you got a good idea what they would look like "in the morning" VS. today when make-up can momentarily transform a dog into something more attractive.

No severe stupid haircuts...... long natural hair was pretty much the norm.  No "look at me" purple and green hair.  No stupid piercings or anything to screw up a nice face.

Women acted like women and they didn't have anything to prove.

Plenty of natural wholesome beauty on display.  No freaks and geeks like you see today.

That's just a little about the women.

Everything else was way better too.  Society, general well being, most of the country didn't lock their homes or cars, no political correctness with dozens of new "genders" being created, etc.  It was a MUCH better time for our country in every way.

Only low point was the Presidency of Carter.

When I see a bottle of Galliano behind a bar and order a Harvey Wallbanger, I always enjoy the blank stare the waitress/bartender gives me . . . . .