What are your thoughts on life in the 70s and 80s?
- Thread starter Kinnick.At.Night
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Bras on the front....
Louvers on the back....
Louvers on the back....
And how about being able to install a radio, 8-Track or cassette player of your choice in your car yourself. Speakers also.
I overhauled two 70’s era car engines in parent’s garage with nothing but some ragtag tools and a Haynes Automotive Manual. Today’s automotive technology has eliminated the ability for kids to learn how to do those types of things….which were a blast.
A lot of people doing using the nose candy back then. Strippers and pornographers had thick bushes and hairy chested men. Kids grew up wanting to be like the Marlboro Man and there were smoking areas in high schools for the 18 year old students. The vehicles were kind of shitty but no one really cared. If you were a young boy, on a hot day, a good chance you were wearing extremely short shorts and one of your balls was hanging out the side.
I wanted to be the long distance dedication on AT40 in the worst way.
Who remembers the way mall arcades smelled? Purely electrical.
Forgot about that. That was pretty cool.
Friday nights on ABC in the early 1970s
Brady Bunch
Partridge Family
Room 222
Odd Couple
Love American Style
Than on KCRG channel 9 — Creature Feature
Delivering papers and having to collect. Kind of scared of the couple houses that would just yell at you for asking for payment. .
Playing baseball or basketball outside all day with friends, being excited for Little League game later in the day
The second floor of the Old Capitol Mall in Iowa City had two arcades (Aladdin’s Castle annd Center Amusements) across from each other with an Arby’s and movie theater in between. It was the land of the holy for this 12 year old.
A buddy of mine deduced it in the following manner ...
Larry Biittner was on the Reds and he only played in Cincy in '81 and '82. He only had 61 at bats in '81, so it had to be '82.
Yes, I have friends like this.
Miscellaneous thoughts for the era:
1. Hearing "Afternoon Delight" played scores of times on the car radio as we drove to Wyoming for the summer.
2. Playing 'pin the badge on the sheriff' at my sixth birthday party in Laramie.
3. As a kid, sports, including football, baseball, wiffleball, basketball, tennis, soccer, and ultimate frisbee, were pickup games, and there was no - and I mean no - organization. Similarly, there were definitely no adults around when we would spend mornings navigating the miles of underground labyrinth that was my town's storm drainage system during the summer.
4. My parents, who were teachers and always seemed to be a bit on the edge financially, suddenly becoming comfortable after the election of Ronald Reagan.
5. Purchasing my first CD player (and being an "early adopter" among my friends). First CDs purchased: Genesis No Reply at All ('cause the horns sounded great on my Cerwin Vegas) and Dire Straits Brothers in Arms (because it was actually recorded digitally).
6. Edit...oh, and the king. My dad using the Heimlich maneuver to save my mom, before everyone was taught the Heimlich maneuver and instead would hit people in the back. Basically, my mom was choking at dinner, he did it while we kids sat there dumbfounded, and it worked. Broke a couple of her ribs though. Afterwards, my mom asked him where he learned that, and he replied "no idea". The next day he realized that every day when he would go to work as a teacher, he would pass by the "teacher's bulletin board" in the school office, and on that bulletin board, they had a psa poster depicting it. Never took the time to read the poster, just sort of internalized it subliminally from the routine.
1. Hearing "Afternoon Delight" played scores of times on the car radio as we drove to Wyoming for the summer.
2. Playing 'pin the badge on the sheriff' at my sixth birthday party in Laramie.
3. As a kid, sports, including football, baseball, wiffleball, basketball, tennis, soccer, and ultimate frisbee, were pickup games, and there was no - and I mean no - organization. Similarly, there were definitely no adults around when we would spend mornings navigating the miles of underground labyrinth that was my town's storm drainage system during the summer.
4. My parents, who were teachers and always seemed to be a bit on the edge financially, suddenly becoming comfortable after the election of Ronald Reagan.
5. Purchasing my first CD player (and being an "early adopter" among my friends). First CDs purchased: Genesis No Reply at All ('cause the horns sounded great on my Cerwin Vegas) and Dire Straits Brothers in Arms (because it was actually recorded digitally).
6. Edit...oh, and the king. My dad using the Heimlich maneuver to save my mom, before everyone was taught the Heimlich maneuver and instead would hit people in the back. Basically, my mom was choking at dinner, he did it while we kids sat there dumbfounded, and it worked. Broke a couple of her ribs though. Afterwards, my mom asked him where he learned that, and he replied "no idea". The next day he realized that every day when he would go to work as a teacher, he would pass by the "teacher's bulletin board" in the school office, and on that bulletin board, they had a psa poster depicting it. Never took the time to read the poster, just sort of internalized it subliminally from the routine.
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Deductive powers are skrong with that one. If you can’t be smart, have smart friends.A buddy of mine deduced it in the following manner ...
Larry Biittner was on the Reds and he only played in Cincy in '81 and '82. He only had 61 at bats in '81, so it had to be '82.
Yes, I have friends like this.
Not saying you aren’t smart…
I remember being able to watch fuzzy softcore p*rn on mute on Cinemax after like 11 pm as a kid growing up once I got an old tube TV in my bedroom......channel 99
Them tube socks didn't stand a chance as a teenager!
They're still in business (Janda), not sure they advertised on WGN but they did locally on the IC/CR local channels.
https://janda.com/
I loved me some TWIB Notes.
I miss TV you could fap to. I loved Battle of the Network Stars. Bach's boobies were amazing. The slow motion drop into the dunk tank brought back memories.
TV in general seemed better in the 70s and 80s. Good procedurals. I was channel surfing on the treadmill today during lunch and caught part of an episode of the Fall Guy. Just mindless TV fun, and at the end of the episode where Colt had defeated a gang of bikers, the leather jacket that Heather Thomas was wearing popped open revealing that she was only wearing a bikini, and then she had to wrestle the hot female biker into submission.
The 80s were the best for random naked boobies.
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