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The Magical 1970s

By o-din

4 years ago


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#96 4 years ago
Quoted from o-din:

Your music is now portable.[quoted image][quoted image]

I still have mine......

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#100 4 years ago

The astronaut on the left, Jim Lovell, sat on the Board of Directors of Bally Manufacturing Corporation for a few years starting in the late '80's. I got to meet him and shake his hand at the Bally shareholder meeting held at their Reno Casino in June. 1989.

#104 4 years ago

Did the wildwood flower grow wild on the farm in Plains, Georgia?

#127 4 years ago
Quoted from Jtm3:

Love this stuff[quoted image]

Eames would be proud.

My sister still has her Panasonic ball radio in red and a yellow wrist radio like in the picture.

#145 4 years ago
Quoted from Electrocute:

Who can forget odd rods trading cards[quoted image]

My favorite was Fruit Salad.

#152 4 years ago
Quoted from Onevox:

Wow. Like seeing my life. Are are some I didn’t see...[quoted image][quoted image][quoted image][quoted image]

Whizzers were cool. We would also battle them in the bowl thing. For more fun we would put a Battling tops launch pull thingy around the spinning tip after revving it up to cause real damage. How did the Battling Tops commercial go? "Champ, what's your secret? It's in the wrist action".....

As for the Mattel electronic football. The originals did not have a sound switch, it was always on. I was able to remove the tamper resistant triangle-shaped head screws and added a switch to them so they could be played in school as they were getting CONfiscated. Easy way to make extra money. Minimum wage was $2.65 back then and I was charging $3.00. Also did the race car game as well.

#205 4 years ago
Quoted from girloveswaffles:Remember back in the '70s when toys were a lot more dangerous?[quoted image]

Since they were recalled, I wonder how much you could get for a set of those?

#217 4 years ago
Quoted from LTG:

Good thing you don't taste good.
LTG : )

But he does have good taste....

#223 4 years ago
Quoted from o-din:

My dad was the opposite. Once it was time for primetime, he'd put on his smoking jacket, get his brandy snifter, and settle into his recliner. The shows he watched, he wanted us out of the room and in bed.
That mid 60s Zenith color set lasted the entire 70s and on into the 80s before it became more or less incompatible with new cable TV.[quoted image]

The old Space Command no batteries required remote. We had fun shaking a ring of keys in the room causing the barrel motor to do the Hustle.....

#246 4 years ago
Quoted from o-din:

Welcome to the 1970s, kids.
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I had the Pacific 8 Sizzlers set. Orange dual track with the Pit Stop charging station.

#271 4 years ago
Quoted from DennisDodel:

I think these were pretty cool.
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I had that Huffy, like the one pictured, in Blue. 3 speed, Sissy Bar and that chain cover.

#275 4 years ago
Quoted from o-din:

What have they done to my Stingray?
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Trivia: That Schwinn was made at their plant in Chicago on North Kostner Avenue. Not even a mile North of the original Gottlieb plant on the same street.

#277 4 years ago
Quoted from o-din:

So one afternoon half thru the year, we all gather in the office and it was then I was told I am no longer a fifth grader at Acacia, but now a sixth grader at St. Catherines.

Ugh, I'm a twelve year victim of Catholic schools.....

#304 4 years ago
Quoted from Strummy:

Presto Burger

We had one of those. Also had the Presto Hot Dogger. Made hot dogs like an electric chair. Pretty good safety lock out as the spears/prongs put liner voltage through the meat.

#359 4 years ago
Quoted from o-din:

Nothing screams 1970s arcade like this little beauty that is at the local auction house.[quoted image]

Always had fun replacing the 5K potentiometer on the throttle on those. Or even spraying them with "Technician in a can".

The route OP I worked for probably scrapped twenty of them.

#381 4 years ago

I had those. Two bucks was quite a bit back then. My deck had the Jack of Diamonds as the primary card.

Marshall worked at Chicago's Riverview Park and is in a couple of videos aboot the park (Which was located just East of Bally's and Williams/United's main plants and offices. He was also on the Chicago Bozo show.

#382 4 years ago
Quoted from o-din:

I just use the one down at the local drug store.[quoted image]

The local Olson Electronics stores (Detroit area had 4 or five of them) each had two tube testers. They had every tube imaginable. Until I needed one for a Seeburg Tormat control center on an LPC-1 Juke Box. No dice. Had to go to the Seeburg Distributor (Martin & Snyder) to get them as they were considered "Commercial" Tubes vs. consumer tubes.

#393 4 years ago
Quoted from hawkmoon:

No,you weren't paying attention to the song,Its 4 dead in O-High-O

The lesson learned there was Do not throw rocks at men with guns.

#398 4 years ago
Quoted from cottonm4:

The 70s: In no particular order.
Viet Nam
Nixon
Gas Shortages
55 mile/hour speed limits
CB Radios
No more Viet Nam
Nixon is Impeached
Nixon resigns
Ford pardons Nixon
Head Shops
Under-powered overpriced cars.
Speedometers changed from 120 mph top speed to 80 mph top speed
Dual speedos showing MPH and kilometers
Car payments were on a 36 month schedule. The car self-destructed on the 37th payment.
Chevettes and other econo-boxes were everywhere
Love Canal----Hooker Chemical
Boeing 747s hit the skies
From 1976 to 1979 housing prices doubled. $15K bread boxes ( Jr. Ranch ) doubled to $32K
Three Mile Island
Unleaded gasoline started its move to replace regular leaded gasoline
Radial tires kicked bias-belted tires to the curb.
White walls went out of style
Instead of paying monthly rent on a telephone, you could buy your own phone. All kinds of bizarre phones were sold. Mickey Mouse phone, anyone?
The 70s were when kick ass stereos were being sold. Replacing the lackluster stereos from the 60s.
Quadrophonic stereos hit the scene---and flamed out.

No big deal, but it was 85 MPH speedometers per the FMVSS. Actually had to have a pin so the needle wouldn't go past 85. If one of the few digital ones, 85 was tops.

#521 4 years ago
Quoted from o-din:

Ballyhoo?[quoted image]

What will they do in '32? Play Ballyhoo, Ballyhoo......

#522 4 years ago
Quoted from Dent00:

If you tie a string to a balloon about 2 feet in diameter, filled with hydrogen and lite the end before you release it, you can watch the fireball similar to the Hindenburg, about 20 feet in the air. Typically, the fireball is about 3-4 feet in diameter. It is rather loud and impressive, but it only lasts for a brief moment. Kind of like a big firework.

Oh the humanity!!!!

#541 4 years ago
Quoted from o-din:

Not sure if that was just a California thing or not, but at one point it came to be. I could fix it!
I was big on Fords but never owned a Pinto or a Mustang.
But I did have a car with a Pinto motor in it.
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I remember the Ford World Headquarters sign along I-94 with the big dot matrix incandescent two line display proclaiming "Mercury Capri, European Flavor".

#550 4 years ago
Quoted from pinzrfun:

Holy crap, I remember that thing! It's the "gas pump" that jogged my memory!

That's the Sizzlers "Juice Machine".

#593 4 years ago
Quoted from Atari_Daze:

Wish I had a COE these days!

Plenty of old International tractors that are COE.

#644 4 years ago

In the USA, that was into the early '90's. Later for Europe and even later for Japan.

#645 4 years ago
Quoted from ultimategameroom:

My dad had a 77 F250. I remember my mom calling the state police to see if it was ok for 3 of us to ride in the back on the Pennsylvania turnpike. The officer said that’s not a problem at all but thanks for checking !

America's First Superhighway......

#654 4 years ago
Quoted from golfingdad1:

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Cars , i have a 74' , were these ever cool ?
First car at 16

2001 or 2002? And I don't mean model year....

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