What are your thoughts on life in the 70s and 80s?

[Kinnick.At.Night]

Remember talking at school with your friends about plans for after school? Or for the weekend? And trying to get things worked out by the end of the day to avoid confusion? Remember calling your girlfriend on her landline and having a parent of hers pick up another home phone and ask her to say goodnight? While saying hello to you. Do you remember reading the paper for the most immediate sports statistics? Yada, yada, yada. Keep adding to this post.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Waiting for the AP/UPI rankings at halftime of Monday Night Football

 

[biggreydogs]

No antifa.

 

[artradley]

Everybody watched basically the same TV shows ever night. So in school you would discuss what happened on Gilligan’s Island last night.

Monday Night Football packed the bars, and we waited for Howard Cossell to do the highlights of other games at halftime; because that was the only chance you got to see actual video of games other than the two that played on TV Sunday.

 

[Kinnick.At.Night]

I remember inheriting a black and white television in my bedroom from my dad and being thrilled to watch Iowa wrestling dominate in 1985. On Iowa PBS Channel 12.

 

[stickman80]

18 then 19 year old drinking. Half the senior guys could hit the titty bars while still in high school....legally.

 

[Thunderlips71]

Monday Night Football halftime highlights with Howard Cosell was must-see TV.

Also, women had big bushes back then.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Mel Allen and This Week in Baseball on Saturday mornings

 

[SolarHawk]

Indifferent. I was born in 83. Also, op sucks at threads. Sorry, not sorry.

 

[LuciousBDragon]

Peeling apart the centerfold pages from my older brother’s Playboy mags.

Also miss the old Beat the Bear show on WHO.

 

[BrianNole777]

Indifferent. I was born in 83.

Same here.

 

[artradley]

Free road maps at gas stations. And conventional wisdom was to go to a gas station if you needed directions. Because you needed road maps and directions a lot back then.

Biggest boxing matches of all time were free on national TV.

 

[hawkirugged17]

 

[hawkirugged17]

Free road maps at gas stations. And conventional wisdom was to go to a gas station if you needed directions. Because you needed road maps and directions a lot back then.

Biggest boxing matches of all time were free on national TV.

Wide World of Sports on ABC - Howard Cosell for Ali - Frazier 2.

 

[Chuck C]

In Elementary school, it was a big deal to be the one selected that day to rewind the projector reel after watching a film .

 

[thewop]

Giant bush.

And riding bikes without helmets.

And giant bush

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Creature Feature
Gordon Solie and WCW

 

[hawkirugged17]

In Elementary school, it was a big deal to be the one selected that day to rewind the projector reel after watching a film .

And a bad thing to have to clap erasers!

 

[Kinnick.At.Night]

Indifferent. I was born in 83. Also, op sucks at threads. Sorry, not sorry.

I knew your folks. They were pissed about expecting you.

 

[DooBi]

I remember camping in our big military canvas tent with mom, dad and 4 of us boys. It was the only time I had permission to stay up as late as I wanted. I always tried to stay up till sunrise fishing all night long. Sometimes I made it. Sometimes I didn't.

 

[Bonerfarts]

Saturday morning cartoons

 

[stickman80]

Giant bush.

And giant bush

Had an uncle who had a blowup pic of "Two Virgins" hanging above his bed. I chose a FF swimsuit poster over Lennon's schlong and Ono's giant bush.

 

[hawkirugged17]

Saturday morning cartoons

 

[Here_4_a_Day]

Most of the punks posting on this board would not have survived the 70s.........

 

[SoProudNole]

Had an uncle who had a blowup pic of "Two Virgins" hanging above his bed. I chose a FF swimsuit poster over Lennon's schlong and Ono's giant bush.

Jesus, just how fu*%#ing white trash is your family?

 

[goldmom]

MUCH better music. Fewer college games on TV and Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford and Don Meredith with halftime highlights of Sunday Games.
Fun places you went to with friends like TGIFridays, Chili’s and Bennigans. Standing in line to buy tickets to Star Wars. Animal House and SNL was actually funny them.
70’s an 8 track in your car - but in the 80’s cassette tapes. First time there were real car seats and safety belts for the kids.
Talk radio started up and got big.
Having my kids and then doing Jane Fonda workouts to get back in shape.
Got the car phone in the late 80’s if your company paid for it. Roaming charges.

 

[franklinman]

70s, whoa, married with 2 kids.

 

[goldmom]

70s, whoa, married with 2 kids.

Was married in 71 but no kids for us until Fall 77. Second one in 81. We had a lot of fun before we had babies.
My daughter and I were talking just today and she said she and her older brother were lucky to have grown up when they did - 80’s and 90’s.

 

[Bulldogs1974]

By far the best decades to grow up.

 

[bhawk24bob]

The 80s was really peak civilization

 

[billanole]

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Road runner and ACME explosives…
Tom and Jerry.

 

[franklinman]

Was married in 71 but no kids for us until Fall 77. Second one in 81. We had a lot of fun before we had babies.
My daughter and I were talking just today and she said she and her older brother were lucky to have grown up when they did - 80’s and 90’s.

April 1st, completed 4 yrs in the AF, started working 4/7, married 5/11, in 68,. 1st girl 1970 and # 2 came along 14 months later. No grass growing under my feet.

 

[The Tradition]

Seedy marijuana.

But that Columbian Gold was good stuff.

 

[win1forthe]

In Elementary school, it was a big deal to be the one selected that day to rewind the projector reel after watching a film .

Or being asked to get 25 copies made on the ditto machine…ah, the sweet smell.

 

[win1forthe]

I remember running home after school to catch the final couple of innings of the Cubs game because all games were day games.

Watching videos on MTV…still have a thing for Tabitha Soren

It was a great day when you got Sports Illustrated or The Sporting News in the mail

Playing outside in the summer and having to come home when the street lights came on

 

[onlyTheObvious]

A couple years of “be around the neighborhood by the time the street lights come on”. Then play kick the can. Ride bikes all over hell until that time. Parents don’t have a clue what you were doing or where you were.

Saturday matinees of Godzilla and Inferman

 

[hawkbirch]

Calling the radio station to request your favorite song and then waiting for them to finally play it so you could record it on your cassette player. When it finally is played, your stupid sister walks into the room and talks and ruins it. Rinse and repeat all day long.

 

[FAUlty Gator]

Most of my spare time spent spinning a pencil in the spokes of my Weird Al cassette to get the tape back into place so I could rock out. You know…typical man shit.

 

[KFsdisciple]

Saturday morning cartoons, reading the comics in the paper...playing nintendo...using command prompt to load games from a floppy on my commodore 64.

 

[Chuck C]

A couple years of “be around the neighborhood by the time the street lights come on”. Then play kick the can. Ride bikes all over hell until that time. Parents don’t have a clue what you were doing or where you were.

Saturday matinees of Godzilla and Inferman

That reminds me of watching Kung Fu Theater on the USA network on Saturday mornings.