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The economy wasn't so hot with Nixon's wage and price controls, and then Carter came along and killed the economy, setting the stage for the 80's.
Girls were thin and feminine, and cute girls were all over the place. Fatties were unusual. Gas was cheap for awhile, but the Middle East flare up made them rise. You could buy a muscle car very cheap, because everyone was buying smaller, more fuel efficient cars trying to beat the gas crisis. But being a teenager in the 70's was great. The 80's was a return to greatness after about 7 years of poop. I liked both the 70's and 80s, except for the 1972 Z Brick that my mother had my father install on the entryway wall. |
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Quoted: No, the LATE 70s were emission-choked. You're ignoring the early 70s cars. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Late 60s were peak muscle. 70s were emission-choked shit. No, the LATE 70s were emission-choked. You're ignoring the early 70s cars. That's how you know he's trolling. Early 70s were tits. Late 70s were jimmy carter. |
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Makes you wonder what happened to the food supply to cause all the obesity these days compared to the 70's?
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Quoted: Disco dance halls were awesome places. Lou's Rule: Women dance because they like to dance. Men dance because they like the women who like to dance. View Quote Women dance because it's part of their mating ritual and evaluating a potential sexual partner. If you can't keep up on the dance floor, you can't keep up in the sheets |
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Being in my 20's in the 70's and living in So Cal was as good as it gets.
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Quoted: The 70s had some of the best music ever. You're just ignoring it by focusing on disco. Disco was pop for the 70s and pop always sucks. The 70s also had some of the coolest muscle cars ever. You're also ignoring them. But yes, the fashions sucked. View Quote Attached File |
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I grew up in the 70's. Looking back most of it sucked. One thing that stands out as an adult was the crazy sex people were having. Socially, it was ok just to fuck everywhere. Like say your an 8 year old at a campground with your parents. You might get babysat by your camping neighbors that they just met while they go fuck in the nearby woods for an hour. People would fuck in the car while kids were inside playing. Fuck in the same hotel room while kids were sleeping on the floor in sleeping bags. Fuck on a blanket at the park surrounded by picnicking families. Crazy shit like that.
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Amazing the young soy boys are scared of a woman's pubic hair. After the big boogaloo, when survival will b more important than crotch shaving, us boomers will be up to our necks in hairy snatch while the soy boys run away to fap to some kiddy porn.
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View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Compared to the 80s, the 70s was just so-so. Compared to now, the 70s were like Utopia. /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/hes_right_you_know-328.jpg It wasn't until the late 80's that cars became decent again and it wasn't the American cars. They didn't come around until the 90's and are arguably just now back to 60's cool status. |
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Quoted: I grew up in the 70's. Looking back most of it sucked. One thing that stands out as an adult was the crazy sex people were having. Socially, it was ok just to fuck everywhere. Like say your an 8 year old at a campground with your parents. You might get babysat by your camping neighbors that they just met while they go fuck in the nearby woods for an hour. People would fuck in the car while kids were inside playing. Fuck in the same hotel room while kids were sleeping on the floor in sleeping bags. Fuck on a blanket at the park surrounded by picnicking families. Crazy shit like that. View Quote You say that all as if you think there's something wrong with it. |
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Quoted: I grew up in the 70's. Looking back most of it sucked. One thing that stands out as an adult was the crazy sex people were having. Socially, it was ok just to fuck everywhere. Like say your an 8 year old at a campground with your parents. You might get babysat by your camping neighbors that they just met while they go fuck in the nearby woods for an hour. People would fuck in the car while kids were inside playing. Fuck in the same hotel room while kids were sleeping on the floor in sleeping bags. Fuck on a blanket at the park surrounded by picnicking families. Crazy shit like that. View Quote W T F ? |
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Quoted: We’re the 80’s actually different? https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/82036/1B19A2EC-98F7-43EF-8BAA-6CF6B7CA8259-2102368.jpg View Quote god DAYYYMN if that isn't giving me flashbacks |
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Quoted: Ha! Class of '70 here. Just sitting trying to recall some clear memory of those days! View Quote |
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Quoted: Speaking as someone who was six years old in 1976, the only color I remember from the ‘70s is RedWhiteandBlue! Truly, we always had great Independence Day celebrations with a fair and fireworks and 1976 was even better. We painted all the fire hydrants on the street to look like Uncle Sam and the kids decorated their bikes with red, white, and blue streamers and we had a parade. View Quote I'm one year behind you. For the most part that is what I remember too. Went to Disneylworld in '76, patriotic everywhere. |
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No they were the best of times. Hot chicks everywhere, the best live concerts and music and we all had 60’s muscle cars that we’d cruise out at the lakefront and even disco wasn’t that bad if you could dance. There was a place in Metairie called Fat City and it was a 5 block square of clubs everywhere and you could walk literally club to club all night and get a banging BBQ sandwich and a beer to end the night. A target rich environment of fun. I’d definitely go back. Good Times
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I was a teen the biggest part of the '70s. It was a fun time. Thankfully we didn't have any of the atrocious wood paneling or puke green kitchen appliances.
Chasing tail was a full time hobby. Music was good. |
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Quoted: That explains the brown furniture everywhere. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Everyone wasn't morbidly obese so at least there was that. That's because everyone smoked. (It's true). I ate most every meal with dad's cig burning in an ashtray 3" from my plate. I dared to say something about it once. Once. |
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My experience in the late 70's and 80's was more "Dazed and Confused" with regard to cars, girls and partying (didn't get into the weed tho) than it was The Brady Bunch.
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Quoted: That explains the brown furniture everywhere. View Quote |
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Quoted: Nothing is as good as it is now. We're at the pinnacle. View Quote Not sure if serious. I'd argue the pinnacle was sometime in the mid-90s. People still had morals, a sense of national pride, and a good amount of tech (but no social media). People knew their neighbors and let their kids play outside until the street lights came on. I went to college in the 90s when there were varying view points, but not the division or hate that you see today. That all went away with the 2000s, 9/11, etc. We've been on the downhill slide from the pinnacle for 20-25 years at least. |
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Quoted: Quoted: I grew up in the 70's. Looking back most of it sucked. One thing that stands out as an adult was the crazy sex people were having. Socially, it was ok just to fuck everywhere. Like say your an 8 year old at a campground with your parents. You might get babysat by your camping neighbors that they just met while they go fuck in the nearby woods for an hour. People would fuck in the car while kids were inside playing. Fuck in the same hotel room while kids were sleeping on the floor in sleeping bags. Fuck on a blanket at the park surrounded by picnicking families. Crazy shit like that. W T F ? I know. I remember camping and my new friends were sent over to our camp fire while their parents took a walk. Us hearing funny noises coming from the nearby woods and my parents saying it was wild animals. I also distinctively remember being at the beach and the head board in the next hotel room practically coming through the wall. I remember my dad saying something to the guy about it the next morning and the couple just giggling. Some guy railing on his woman out on a sparsely populated beach in the morning. Mom yelling at dad to stop looking that direction. Couples had sex everywhere and thought it was just okay. Weird as hell looking back on it now. |
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Quoted: I remember the night I first heard the first VH album. I was at a kids birthday party and someone got it for him as a gift. He slapped it on the record player and I was like ,"this is some magic shit". I was 10 years old and it was 1978. View Quote My first hit of VH was riding in my cousin's 70 Chevelle, Running With The Devil... |
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Quoted: Horrible cars. Horrible music. Brown everywhere. https://www.collectorsweekly.com/uploads/2018/08/22113752/grandma_70ssofa_heractualcouch.jpg https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/features/mustang-ii-forty-years-later.img.png/1500004288531.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hcy3-NXoxuU/hqdefault.jpg View Quote Holy crap, that was my parent's couch growing up! I had forgotten what it looked like! 10,000 memories flooding back into my head! |
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Quoted: Late 70s was great, too. Good music, kids hated hippies, punk rock on the rise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l-4MW_jbfg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7-pGRN1XGc View Quote The 70's and 80's were not an extension of the 60's it was a rejection. Granted we had to deal with jimmah but nobody covered for him, not even the media. Not even SNL. We got rid of him and came back strong. |
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Quoted: Quoted: I grew up in the 70's. Looking back most of it sucked. One thing that stands out as an adult was the crazy sex people were having. Socially, it was ok just to fuck everywhere. Like say your an 8 year old at a campground with your parents. You might get babysat by your camping neighbors that they just met while they go fuck in the nearby woods for an hour. People would fuck in the car while kids were inside playing. Fuck in the same hotel room while kids were sleeping on the floor in sleeping bags. Fuck on a blanket at the park surrounded by picnicking families. Crazy shit like that. W T F ? HE must have lived in a different place that I ever lived. |
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Quoted: I lived in Jefferson a few blocks from the Hughey P Long bridge and it was fine back then. But that area has definitely declined now. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I doubt it was Baltimore or New Orleans I lived in Jefferson a few blocks from the Hughey P Long bridge and it was fine back then. But that area has definitely declined now. it's still fine to this day...now bridge city on the other hand |
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Quoted: Late 60s were peak muscle. 70s were emission-choked shit. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: The 70s also had some of the coolest muscle cars ever. You're also ignoring them. But yes, the fashions sucked. Late 60s were peak muscle. 70s were emission-choked shit. Only if you bought new. High school kids could afford the classic 60s muscle cars. It was a great time to be alive and a teenager. |
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Quoted: Makes you wonder what happened to the food supply to cause all the obesity these days compared to the 70's? View Quote Home ec and health were still taught in schools. We had "food groups" not a pyramid. People actually got on a scale, they watched their weight. People had recreation instead of sitting in front of a tv. We played tennis and racket ball. We jogged. People keep bringing up the bad things, like jimmah. The difference is we have more bad things now but the media controls what people are "allowed" to think about them. As a consequence, it's now perfectly normal for Haitians to congregate in Texas and don't dare say otherwise. Crime is so normal people actually think it's gone down. I already mentioned poop in the streets and tent cities. We knew there were two genders. If you could go back in time and tell the 70's and 80's people what has become of the country, what is tolerated, they wouldn't believe you but if they did they would ask you why you aren't doing something about it and why did you let it get so far out of hand. And they would tell you that isn't muscle it's fat and you need to lose some weight. |
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Quoted: Actually, the Twiggy look of the early 70s contradicts your claim View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: women actually looked like women back then, not some pedophile's wet dream....... Actually, the Twiggy look of the early 70s contradicts your claim That was a model. Nobody looked like twiggy. But twiggy is a vast improvement over what graces magazine covers today. |
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