Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for September 11, 2021

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    littlejohn Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Disco came and went.

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    wiatr  about 3 years ago

    If you couldn’t find it because of a messy house you could always go to the wall, find the plate where the line plugs in and follow the wire back to the phone.

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    electricshadow Premium Member about 3 years ago

    True, and the only mobile phones were installed in cars.

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    rshive  about 3 years ago

    I always liked the pizza outings our Engineering Group had. Gas lines, not so much. So I always bought gas for the car in the “off” hours.

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    littlejohn Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Bell-bottom pants and platform shoes came and mostly went.

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    byamrcn  about 3 years ago

    Match Game!

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    Display  about 3 years ago

    I don’t miss the lines to buy gasoline, a war the Pentagon and WH had known we couldn’t win for almost ten years already by that time plus all the violence around the world related to it, disco, using “My wife – I think I’ll keep her!” as an advertising slogan, the massacre of Olympic athletes, and a lot of other things. A lot of those things I don’t miss (or their “kissin’ cousins”) are still around today.

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    FreyjaRN Premium Member about 3 years ago

    The phones were durable as heck as well.

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    dlkrueger33  about 3 years ago

    Nothing! Worst decade of my life. LOL. (Luckily good decades were ahead).

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    Dean  about 3 years ago

    No robocalls!

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    gopher gofer  about 3 years ago

    leisure suits… grin

    lord, the fashions were awful…

    saturday night live was my favorite part of the 70s…

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    russef  about 3 years ago

    And we never had to yell CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW.

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    manowarrior  about 3 years ago

    ac/dc,kiss,twisted sister,ted nugent

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    BearsDown Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Pink Floyd. Rush. ZZ Top. Grateful Dead. Rolling Stones. Led Zeppelin. The Who. Dire Straits. Tom Petty. Bob Dylan. Elton John. The Doobie Bros. Jethro Tull. Bob Seger. Fleetwood Mac. Warren Zevon. Joe Walsh. Neil Young.

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    manowarrior  about 3 years ago

    alice cooper,ozzy osbourne,judas priest,the scorpions

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    manowarrior  about 3 years ago

    andre the giant

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    KEA  about 3 years ago

    Good question… nothing is coming to mind

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    preacherman Premium Member about 3 years ago

    So true, the phones were still connected to the wall.

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    johnschutt  about 3 years ago

    The music of the first half.

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    Linguist  about 3 years ago

    People didn’t steal your phone back then, either. The national criminal pastime in most South American countries now is cell phone theft.

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    andersjg Premium Member about 3 years ago

    A couple of kids….

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    oldlady07 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Sister’s kids found an old dial phone. “Look at this funny phone – what is this round thing with the numbers under it!”

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    JoeMartinFan Premium Member about 3 years ago

    As kids in the ’70s, we were too busy playing outside to be thinking about a phone.

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    JoeMartinFan Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Anyone who thinks ‘70s music sucked was either (a) not there, or (b) listening to the wrong music! See BearsDown’s post above; I’ll add to that – Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Earth, Wind & Fire, Parliament-Funkadelic, Rufus feat. Chaka Khan, the Bar-Kays, the Isley Brothers, Kool & the Gang, the Brothers Johnson, Isaac Hayes, Billy Preston, the Commodores, Bill Withers, Herbie Hancock…well, I could go on, but you get the point – I hope!

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    schaefer jim  about 3 years ago

    That is no lie!

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    bobgreenwade  about 3 years ago

    I was a teen in the 70s, when the telephone came in on a wire and television didn’t.

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    zodal  about 3 years ago

    No internet, smartphones or pc. Just Atarie 2600

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    mistercatworks  about 3 years ago

    I wish. Any phone that could be disconnected from its wire and moved to another location in the house had the potential to be “lost” when you needed it.

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    -Saint-  about 3 years ago

    Corinthian Leather…wait, no – that and the car it came in were the worst!

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    ncdrifter  about 3 years ago

    The 1970s left behind some great and memorable music, American cars were more fun to drive and easier to work on, I was in my care-free 20’s and traveled around a lot, as most modes of traveling were cheaper and easier back then. The 1970s will not be forgotten!

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    cipactli77  about 3 years ago

    Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.

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    dja1701  about 3 years ago

    … and no telemarketers

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    Sailor46 USN 65-95  about 3 years ago

    I was young, free (unwed) and…having fun.

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    PuppyPapa  about 3 years ago

    Yup. Screwed right into the wall, they were!

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    olmon  about 3 years ago

    Nobody knew who Donald Trump was – -

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