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The Magical 1970s

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4 years ago


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#1 4 years ago

This decade holds a special place in my heart and soul.

I wasn't born then, but spent ten years of my life in it. Economic times were tough and the world was in turmoil, but nobody was really in much of a hurry. and during all that and after the dust settled, it remains perhaps the most magical decade in my memory.

Sights and sounds of those magical 70s.

I'm going to start off with the obvious.
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#2 4 years ago

A little closer to home.
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#3 4 years ago

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#33 4 years ago

I was told I was a mathematical genius, but fk this thing.

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#34 4 years ago

This was more my speed.

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#36 4 years ago

There was a period of time where the yoyo got big again. Without cell phones, we needed something entertaining in our hands.

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#38 4 years ago
Quoted from bigdaddy07:

the 70s were a bit fuzzy

Well that's pretty much a given.

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#41 4 years ago
Quoted from Electrocute:

Can remember all the girls wearing the “clogs”. They made lots of noise, kinda cool back then.

I more remember them wearing Dittos.

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#44 4 years ago
Quoted from CrazyLevi:

Odin loves that polyester look.

Back then the girls were hot and weren't afraid to flaunt it. Love them halter tops too. They didn't halt much.

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#46 4 years ago
Quoted from rotordave:

Is this the young O-din?
Bears a resemblance I reckon ....
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High school yearbook picture, junior year 1978. Pretty much the same as I look today, I reckon.

Who's got a Farrah do?

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#49 4 years ago
Quoted from embryonjohn:

Odin’s thread title includes the word “magical” and he opens with images of flags, Betsy Ross, bicentennial parades and crazy red, white & blue fashions.
You? You rush to google images & counter with signs including a swastika, obscenities & political upheaval.
Admit it dude. You got triggered!!!

I mentioned the economy was crap and the world was in turmoil. So what did we do? We made the best of it. We turned gas lines into a social event and a party.

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#52 4 years ago
Quoted from LTG:

I've seen that guy.
LTG : )

You should have seem buddy Chock Jennings. He was the prototypical Spicoli. I wonder if he's alive today. Many of my friends went down a strange and sometimes ugly road and are no longer with us today. A lot of them, rest their souls.

#53 4 years ago

Who needs an apartment? When living at the folks house is free.

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#54 4 years ago

One of the most revolutionary things I remember from the 1970s was the introduction of the urethane skateboard wheel. It raised the game to a an entire new level. You can throw away those old metal and clay ones now.

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#55 4 years ago

Your future is in our hands.
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#57 4 years ago

We had one of these.

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#62 4 years ago
Quoted from calprog:

Born 62!!!! Love the 70’s!!!! Was a young kid then. Still love the cars front the 60’s and 70’s. Have several!!!

62 here too. We are the in between generation. No label to put on us.

Every high school parking lot was a daily car show.

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#63 4 years ago
Quoted from abc12346038:

1975 brought us one of the greatest films ever made![quoted image][quoted image]

The 70s brought many of the greatest films of all time.

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#66 4 years ago
Quoted from Homebru:

And Patriotic Pinballs...[quoted image][quoted image]

Every major manufacture made one.

And how bout those sports teams.

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#68 4 years ago

Your music is now portable.

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#71 4 years ago

True. It was basically the end of the 60s.

But ushered in "Bring on the 70s!" This guy's gotta go.
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#72 4 years ago

A very intelligent, soft spoken peanut farmer that inherited a mess.

#81 4 years ago

The 1970s. When you could park near the entrance of Disneyland.

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#82 4 years ago

Why do we remember all this? Perhaps the weed wasn't up to par compared to what we have today. lol.

No, seriously. It was a very colorful time

The 60s I remember as a kid and we got Color TV and perhaps a man on the moon. The space race was on and the cars were getting more and more powerful. Kid's toys and cartoons may have been some of the best of all time.

The 80s went by in a blur and was a very stressed out time relatively speaking. Yuppies everywhere. Our future mortgaged, so some could get rich and live the high life. Joys from the 70s pushed aside in the name of progress. AIDS was a new terror, the likes of which the world hadn't see before. Albeit there were some great sports teams, movies and other media.

Th 90s was more of a throwback to the 70s as people again learned to relax, and culture became more freeform again. A sax blowing president set the tone. 90s was life on cruise control.

#88 4 years ago
Quoted from Fulltilt:

Didn't like Kiss then, don't care for them now.

Their fans were basically the kids that were in Jr. high when we were in high school. It gave use a good yuck as we were listening to more serious rockers.

I went off on my own because I had found an underground station that played alternative music that set the tone for the rest of my life. A lot of the kids did not understand what I was listening to. Today they seem to.

I had a Duncan YoYo, a skateboard with urethane wheels, a Schwinn Stingray and then a moped. For a while I worked in a liquor store or wherever else I could make a buck. I was happy as can be and got around. Bus was only 25 cents, so that allowed for endless trips to the beach or wherever else I wanted to go.

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#90 4 years ago
Quoted from Electrocute:

1975 was the best year ever! Too young to drive a car but old enough to get in trouble. It was also the peak of EM’s.

I turned 13 in 1975 and the girls were already knocking on my door.

#94 4 years ago
Quoted from Dent00:

You can't park there anymore?

No. They added California Adventure in that spot when the old man that owned all that property across the street and to the west of Disneyland died, and built a parking structure there.

Back when they still used tickets for each ride, I got on a mailing list which sent me flyers for private parties with unlimited rides. They weren't exactly private as I attended quite a few. Flyers are hard to find now, but check out some of these prices. It was around $10 in the late 70s.
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#97 4 years ago

I know we've all seen the movie and played the pinball machine, but pretty damn amazing story considering the technology of the day.

The nation and perhaps the whole world was holding it's breath.

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#105 4 years ago
Quoted from Honch:

No doubt. A bit of a visionary too. Installed solar panels on the WH long before that was ever going to be considered a "thing".
I'll never forget when he toured Three Mile Island during the meltdown.
I live about 40 minutes away from TMI when it happened and it scared the Hell out of me as a kid. I actually remember feeling better about it when I saw the POTUS was coming to see the plant. Probably my most vivid memory of the 70s as a child. Besides getting pong

I always liked Jimmy Carter and still do. Bless the man. He just got in at a tough time.

Life imitates art. Whoever hasn't watched this movie, probably should. You might even spot a pinball machine if memory serves me right.
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#106 4 years ago
Quoted from CrazyLevi:

Smoked a joint on the roof of the White House with Willie Nelson?
Or is that just a myth?

Are you feeling the magic yet Levi?

New Years Eve 1979 I was at a Cheap Trick concert at the Long Beach Arena, but the whole world was partying. As usual.

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#129 4 years ago
Quoted from mooch:

In the 70s, I remember having rock posters all over the walls.
Two of my faves were these of Led Zeppelin and Debbie Harry.[quoted image][quoted image]

By the late 70s my walls were covered. lol. My buddy had the token bean bag chairs and lava lamp too.

For those that think the 70s was like living in the stone age, it wasn't.

Life was good.

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#131 4 years ago

One of those 8-Tracks would certainly be this one.

#132 4 years ago

BTW those bunk beds still exist at my brother's house. The ship wallpaper is long gone though. The surfboard was sacrificed to the surf gods many moons ago.

The first pic is grandpa Harry. He was a good ole boy.

#134 4 years ago
Quoted from LTG:

You must have had a great kidhood.
LTG : )

You try to forget about the bad shit, you know. It's never all roses. I was a very sick baby. Almost died a couple times. Being in a rain tent for two weeks isn't much fun. Had my ears lanced too. My mom was older when she had me. Then there was the divorce and military school.

What don't kill you, makes you stronger. By the time that pic was taken it was all good.

#136 4 years ago
Quoted from LTG:

Funny how similar we were. Except for military school.
LTG : )

Then you missed the real fun.
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Filmed at St Catherine's Military School... not far away.

#138 4 years ago

You guys are in for a treat now. I just pulled out my 1977 yearbook. Scanning doesn't give the best results, kinda grainy, but it is what it is.

The tall boy with the golf club is Hoby Brenner, long time tight end for the Saints. Keith Van Horne of Bears fame was on the team the year before. The pretty brunette is the sister of the Rikk and Frank Agnew of Adolescents fame.

And yes, rock concerts were normal procedure during school.

The note is from my science teacher. Lol. 20 years later he came into my shop for a smog and I failed him. Haha
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#140 4 years ago

One of my favorite posters I had on my wall was kinda rare and I was glad I stumbled upon it at Custom John's near Disneyland I think the place was called.

Can you name that guitar hero?

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#147 4 years ago

We have a winner!

#150 4 years ago
Quoted from xsvtoys:

O-din here's another one from the 70s, it's so long ago I don't know if my brain is rotted or if I just imagined it. Weren't there some legitimate bands who would play the Tomorrowland stage at Disneyland?

Indeed. When I was 12 one of my distant cousins was visiting and he insisted we go see the Association. That was well before it made way for Space Mountain. I was always up for a trip to the land.

They had been promising Space Mountain for years. I even have a Disneyland poster map from the early 70s that shows future sight of spaceport with a picture of it..

When it finally opened in 1977 we were more than prepared when we got there.

#157 4 years ago
Quoted from jhanley:

You were lucky to have a Schwinn bike. My parents would never pay that much for a bike. We were middle class but I never got name brand sneakers or pants. I remember real Levi's were about 8 bucks when I was 12. I remember buying my first name brand sneakers "Adidas " when I got my first job in 1975 when I was 16. Were your parents well off?

Ny parents were children of the depression so they were very frugal. My old man however knew how to work a deal. He had many periods of unemployment when I was young but somehow came home with a Zenith color TV with a shift command remote control. Big purchases were saved for special occasions. Later he want on to sell parts for the Space Shuttle. Then go on long fishing trips.

#160 4 years ago
Quoted from jhanley:

The first time I went on Space Mountain it made me a little motion sick. The way I remember it was just a roller coaster in the dark.

The first time I went on it was one of those no ride ticket parties. We went on it first then the Matterhorn and then went back out to the picnic area by the front gate to pick up where we had left off before we entered the park. If you get my drift. 8-10 security guards converged on us and put us in that room and our night there was over.

So to say the least my first ride on Space Mountain was a little foggy.

#164 4 years ago
Quoted from rotordave:

Michael Schenker.
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I bought most of my 8-Tracks and vinyl second hand as we had a record store down the street and people were trading them in like pinball machines.

When this 8-Track showed up I plugged it into one of the car stereos on the wall and clicked trough all 4 tracks and it was an instant buy.

Still one of my all time favorites.

#167 4 years ago
Quoted from clg:

Imagine you were growing up in the 70s and pinball themes were based on the 30s to 40s.

Or worse yet, the 17th century.

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#169 4 years ago
Quoted from CrazyLevi:

Odin must be the single most nostalgic person here. He’s authored at least half a dozen threads like this here.
Which makes his opposition to the “old man themes” that dominate pinball so puzzling.

Just adding to the history books while I still can.

#173 4 years ago
Quoted from clg:

Not really. Imagine you were growing up in the 70s and pinball themes were based on the 30s to 40s. I totally agree with him not that it will change anything.

To expand on this, yep memories are free. But I can easily let material things go, and besides pictures, I have maybe one small box of knick knacks from my past along with some vinyl records I haven't listened to in years.

I've always looked forward to what's next and the latest culture, not buying stuff to relive my past, except one small period in the 90s where I hung some old posters up in my apartment as more of a novelty than anything else. I figure if you gotta live in the past, that means you aren't necessarily happy in the now.

Pinball is a little different, as I have some great games from the past, many I never played back then, so it isn't necessarily from my past. In fact the only game from the 1970s I do own is Stars. Never saw that one on location.

If you are going to be in this hobby, you gotta find what games are fun to play and good to look at for you.

#179 4 years ago
Quoted from zombywoof:

My brother would drive me over to Mount Trashmore (an old landfall that had been converted into a city park), and we would skate down the soap box derby track that ran down the hill. He taught me the trick was to weave from side to side down the track to keep your speed down.

We have a couple large hilly streets where they used to close them off and run soapbox derbies. Like you I took a similar skateboard down one of them full speed ahead until I hit a twig or a rock and ate shit.

If anything from the past I long for, it's those kinda places where kids or even adults could be active outside. But most have disappeared or been shut down because somebody might get hurt. Even the places that were harmless seem to have given way to more indoor non activities.
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#184 4 years ago
Quoted from zombywoof:

That's the way of it. Within a couple of years the city had installed a series of metal gates to keep skaters off of the track. On a positive note, they did install a nice new concrete bowl very similar to the skate park in your photo.

Yep. All those places pictured were a short drive from here. The skatepark is the old Concrete Wave that used to be next to Disneyland. They also had some of the first waterslides in the area. A lot if it has to do with increased real estate values and running out of buildable land, one of the reasons there are no more drive in theaters.

Escape Country was that motocross park open to the public young and old. It was located in the hills of Trabuco Canyon, and is now high dollar housing.

There are still a couple skate parks though. The old ones are all long gone.

#187 4 years ago

My den still has the original ash wood paneling from 1959 and it adds a warm glow to the room so I'm not ever taking it out. Won't be buying any deep shag carpeting any time soon though. Or any carpet for that matter.

I can see a kitchen remodel in the future sometime as termites have gotten the better of the cabinets around the sink. Avocado green is still a great option

#202 4 years ago
Quoted from girloveswaffles:

Remember back in the '70s when toys were a lot more dangerous?[quoted image]

Sure. A lot more toxic too.

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#203 4 years ago
Quoted from mof:

I hate to nit-pick here mkay...
But that's 1981.

Plenty of new wave and power pop was released in the 70s before it gave way to the more synthesized crap in the 1980s. As you so astutely pointed out earlier in this thread. In fact there are probably quite a few 70s songs that didn't become recognized until the 80s

Quoted from mof:

"80's music" was WAYYY better in the 70s (new wave, punk, hard rock, etc) before the 80s ruined most of it...

Don't know where this one fits in, but it was a catchy little tune in 1978.

#206 4 years ago

I just took mom to Costco and ran into I guy I've known for years who at one time was a DJ on KROQ who went by the name Mike Raphone. I first met him back in the late 70s and we discussed the music of the time.

He's older than me though, but an ageless wonder who remembers the past but is more interested in today. Wearing shorts and sandals and hates leaf blowers as much as I do. He's kinda a legend around here in certain circles.
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#209 4 years ago
Quoted from Extraballz:

A couple things we used to do as a family a lot in the 70’s.

Kinda looks like the 50s to me. lol.

We had a bunch of them around here and went to them all.

The Orange drive in had the swap meet to go to throughout the 70s, selling all kinds of stuff that wasn't just junk. My favorite stand was the guy selling bootleg vinyl of concerts from all over.
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#211 4 years ago

I was in Florida when Jaws was released. I had actually started reading the book before I got there and finished it before I went to see the movie. I found a picture of myself in Florida at my uncle's house with the book in hand, but you don't really need to see that.

I wonder how many here, especially those that want a Jaws pinball machine, read the book before they saw it or actually read the book at all.

#213 4 years ago

After reading the book and seeing the movie, this was more essential 1970s reading.

But none of that ever made me stay out of the water. I've surfed with a school of porpoises and had sharks rub my legs, but now with the great whites making a noticeable presence off our coast and attacking people, I've gotten a little wary.

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#216 4 years ago
Quoted from LTG:

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

Those were mostly sand sharks probing the area. But now it is a whole new ballgame.

It was a surrealistic moment when those porpoises arrived and I was actually on a wave they started riding too. My biggest hope was that one wouldn't run into me. Very similar to what you see in this picture.
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#220 4 years ago
Quoted from Dent00:

My dad refused to buy a TV with a remote control... Said that it was a waste of money. So, I was the remote control on command.

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.

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#230 4 years ago
Quoted from Darcy:

That stuff smelt so bad, and the colours were not as bright as the package showed. The chemical smell stopped me from emptying the tube.

It says right on the package "flammable".

That stuff got you more buzzed than Testors plastic model glue.

#233 4 years ago
Quoted from girloveswaffles:

Holy S**t! just for laughs I looked on eBay and:
ebay.com link » Vintage Eagle Lawn Darts Game Full Game 4 Darts 2 Rings Original Box
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Buy it! Bring it on over and we can have some fun with the neighbor's leaf blowers.

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#235 4 years ago

Welcome to the 1970s, kids.
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#239 4 years ago
Quoted from Extraballz:

Looks like this now.

Here's the next faze.

Former sight of the Anaheim Drive In.

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#243 4 years ago
Quoted from albummydavis:

Oh yeah. Sizzlers. THE greatest toy ever. The first ever use of nickel cad batteries, I believe. Loved the toy, loved the box art. Everything about it reeks of the 70s. Mattel at its best.

I think Sizzlers officially launched in 1969, but fat track was 1970.

We didn't get anything all year unless we found a way to make money, but come birthday or Christmas it was all about Hot Wheels since day one.

So much orange track that we had it running up and down the hall and all throughout the house once Sizzlers came on the scene.

Fat track was the icing on the cake.
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#244 4 years ago

They even tried to take it to another level.

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#248 4 years ago

I remember going into a Toys R Us in the mid 80s and then it got even worse as my daughter was growing up in the 2000s.

"What happened to all the good toys?"

No wonder they went out of business.

#249 4 years ago

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#251 4 years ago

The ones I had were called Ker Knockers. As fun for a ten year old as owning a set of nunchucks.

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#253 4 years ago
Quoted from TheLaw:

Zebra guns where the shit for sure.

My brother had the Zebra, I had the Star Trek Tracer gun. Sure he could get off more shots, but mine did more damage.

#256 4 years ago
Quoted from TheLaw:

Yeah the discs were a better show but damage goes to the SS balls

I still have my disc gun, but I think I wrecked it by shooting dimes.

#258 4 years ago
Quoted from Dent00:

Or, so called "clackers" that were transparent...
kind of like a learned skill to use those and not hit your arm or other vital parts.
They were lots of fun until you got so good at it that they ruptured.
So then, you got to get some new ones and start over.

Two kids brought them to school one day. The next day everyone had them. Clack city.

The following day they were banned.

#260 4 years ago

Edit- I must be slowing down in my old age.

Switched video to different demo

#261 4 years ago

My Stingray never did this.

#262 4 years ago

What have they done to my Stingray?

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#264 4 years ago
Quoted from ultimategameroom:

I think I was in 3rd grade when ker-bangers were banned from school.

I was in 3rd grade too. I remember the principal coming out at first recess and almost having a heart attack. I think the day before, the two kids that had them were brother and sister and their dad might have worked for a toy company.

#267 4 years ago
Quoted from DennisDodel:

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Sure, but you need a little taller sissy bar.

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#268 4 years ago
Quoted from TheLaw:

Has anyone got to the red baron/green machine yet? I had one of those growing up... Bad ass.

I remember those, but I couldn't even make a regular Big Wheel work. The front wheel always spun on me.

#270 4 years ago
Quoted from ccbiggsoo7:

that stack of playboys/ hustlers should of helped with that!

They used to have a stack in one of the stalls in the men's room at the local grocery store.

"I know where I'm going after school, suddenly I gotta take a dump"

#273 4 years ago
Quoted from CrazyLevi:

I'm guessing Odin's parents didn't find the 70s as magical as he did!

They were paying less attention than we were. My dad liked to party anyway. They had a fight and she kicked him out. It was easy now. Dad was living on his boat which was a nice place to spend the weekend.

Until my brother and I went ballistic and I refused to do school work.. Thus the military school. For me anyway. Since then, it's been freedom.

This bit of nostalgia is rooted in me cleaning out mom's house as she no longer lives there. I found a Carl's Jr. tray from the 70s.

#276 4 years ago

I remember in third grade, somewhere around the ker knockers event, we got a new kid in class. I said to myself, I wonder what it's like going from school to school. Not me, I'll still be here with my buddies when we will be ruling the sixth grade wing.

Around the same time, they pulled some of us aside and gave us IQ tests. Like 25 or 30 simple math based questions. So now I'm the only one of my buddies that is going to a new school, but they are also sending the two best girls so I went along with the plan.

It was called the Idea Program where kid's from several schools were free to do what we thought best. They sent another one of my buddies so we played chess and drew war scenes. They got us a whole roll of butcher paper that went around three walls of the room. Epic battles all across.

To cut to the chase, fifth grade was different. The teacher was kinda a bitch. She didn't like me not doing my assigned work. 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.

#278 4 years ago

I don't know if you guys can sense any of the irony there, but I did plead why can't I go back to my old school and be a fifth grader. Too late.

I was now under the rule of Catholic Militants, with ancient and a couple younger nuns and former military men in charge. The only females there are employees.

With all the other reject and troublemaker kids nobody else wanted. And some of you wonder why I am.

The topper is I was one of maybe a couple kids there that wasn't catholic.

#280 4 years ago
Quoted from JayDee:

Blame the block and tackle

Haha! Could have been the root cause. But I've cracked my melon so many times since then and I feel normal.

Military school wasn't all bad. They had all you can eat fish sticks on Friday. We got to watch Kung Fu, the Lakers and Killdozer while I was they. Didn't care too much for the wooden paddle though.

#281 4 years ago

Oh and my buddy I drew war scenes with was kinda jealous.

By the end of seventh grade, I has escaped four times. Set the school record. The last one I made the mistake of walking home. It was raining. There was cop there waiting for me to take me back. But that set in motion the end of military school and me returning to normalcy.

#282 4 years ago

This is what I learned while in military school.

#285 4 years ago

Dropped off Sunday after Denny's. They had a nice filet of sole that I always liked for my last meal.

Picked up late in the afternoon on Friday, but able to settle in in time for Six Million Dollar Man and Kolchak de Night Stalker.

The nun would come out of her little cubby in the dormitory at 6:00 AM and start clapping her hands.

I don't want such a cool thread to become a downer. When so much good stuff was going on.

#287 4 years ago
Quoted from jhanley:

Sorry you had to go through that.I can't imagine how you felt.

Oh, but it left me a better man, I'd hope. They teach you habits of how to be efficient with your time. As DLR said I hit the ground running.

One if the kid's name's was Ackles. We no longer had first names. Anyway, he used to walk around with 5 or 6 Black Oak Arkansas records tucked under his arm. When they announced the first Cal Jam, he got super excited and started flashing tickets. He said he got his money's worth.

#288 4 years ago

Amidst all the chaos, I found myself wowed.

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#310 4 years ago

Summer of '79 when Carter gave that speech, I was 17 and fresh out of high school and not plotting my next move. I figured since I got bumped up a grade when sent off to military school, I now had a year to burn.

I am not totally against these retro pinball themes, it's just that they haven't done the right one for me.

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#315 4 years ago

I didn't see Star Wars until years later. I did see Close Encounters in the theatre.

I worked with an older guy that seemed kind of strange at the time.

I mean who would be so enthused with a movie that he would go out and pay extra so he could have two personalized license plates "R2D2" and "CP3O". Both were Subarus, one was a Brat.

#317 4 years ago

One fine spring day in 1978. As Woodstock was the end of one era, this day seemed like the end of another.

#319 4 years ago

That day at the Ontario Motor Speedway was the end of my era going to concerts with a half a million people. Totally disorganized as we stood in line for five hours the day before squashed together like sardines. One of the most tortuous afternoons of my life. Total relief once the gates opened.

Music was changing, and punk had already started to infiltrate us.

But one last time with Ted Nugent and his original solo band, before they would split up and never be the same again.

#320 4 years ago

Speaking of Ontario Motor Speedway, Nascar when they drove cars that were not all the same.

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#327 4 years ago
Quoted from mof:

wait, what?

350,000+ is the guestimated official count, but when you are one of the sardines, it doesn't make much difference. Once inside people were mellow and gave you your space. I was amazed a buddy I didn't go with found me in all that.

Around ten of the most popular bands at the time, difference is the first Cal Jam showcased top English bands where this one was mostly American bands.

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#329 4 years ago
Quoted from TheLaw:

Most of my teens and 20 was in the 90s, and that was a shit showed compared to the 80s.

Most of my 30s was in the 90s and the 80s were a shit show compared to that.

Of course what I did learn from the 80s culture is how I would not want to live the rest of my life.

#331 4 years ago
Quoted from Fulltilt:

And for that reason, still drew fans.

After Ontario closed, Nascar all but vanished from So Cal.

I've been to Fontana, probably in the early 2000s and it was pretty fun. Best race I saw there was Indy cars where there were like six cars left when it was all done.

It's been a lifelong ambition of mine to take in at least one race at Bristol.

#335 4 years ago

Roadtrip!

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#338 4 years ago

GenXrs are super busy heckling millennials now, who I have seem to have more in common with.

The baby boomers used to crap all over genX the same way.

Us in betweeners are just suburban robots that monitor reality.
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#343 4 years ago

70s had some good cars.
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Quoted from pinballkim:

Perhaps you're right, maybe it is two generations behind that takes the heat.

Many cases one generation. Our family skips generations.

#344 4 years ago
Quoted from mooch:

Common stock, we work around the clock.
We shove the poles in the holes…

#346 4 years ago
Quoted from wolverinetuner:

Even AMC, the Chicago Coin of automakers, made a nice muscle car.

My buddy called them the Mr Potato Head of auto makers. A part from here, a part from there.

#350 4 years ago
Quoted from vicjw66:

So out went Carter and all those old rusty unsafe but fun as heck playgrounds, and in came plastic, sanitized, and safe playgrounds bought on credit. A lot of things were fixed up by Reagan with money we didn’t have. The rusty old 70s were replaced with the plastic 80s.

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#351 4 years ago
Quoted from vicjw66:

Ted Nugent was the worst. Cat scratch fever? WTF was that shit. How did that guy ever have a career?

He told us and played for us what we wanted to hear.

#352 4 years ago

It's true Ted Nugent was already old hat by the time Double Live Gonzo came out as there was a new sound in town.

#353 4 years ago

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

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#355 4 years ago
Quoted from girloveswaffles:

Captains Auctions?

Yep!

Of all those Stunt Cycles they made, and it has to be 1000s of them as they were everywhere, this is only the second one I've seen at the Captain's.

For those not familiar with that game, it sucked down quarters as fast as any pinball machine in it's day. I know it took a lot of mine.

#357 4 years ago
Quoted from girloveswaffles:

Nuttings Computer Space. Predates Pong by nearly a year. Molded fiberglass cabinet, vacuum tube television for a display (modified) and a gas can for a coin box (also modified).

But how do you jump busses with no handlebars or grips?

#358 4 years ago

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#360 4 years ago

Above photo care of NimblePin while I wasn't looking.

#362 4 years ago

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#364 4 years ago

Does anybody that was actually there in the 1970s really care they released a new version of the Star Wars pinball game today?

I didn't think so....

#367 4 years ago
Quoted from LTG:

Fun game. Had one in here back in the day. Out of order once, waiting on operator to come fix it. A kid asked my Mother what was wrong with it. She told him it was out of gas and they had to come and refill the tank.
He believed her.
LTG : )
Disclaimer : It wasn't o-din

I bet nobody ever bitched about the code on that one, and it was pure money making gold.

#369 4 years ago
Quoted from LTG:

Only thing would be people wishing they built this, or that. What ever they think would be a great game. Which has stood the test of time. Still done today.

I never once remember saying I wish they would make anything as I was so blown away by what the creative geniuses were coming up with time and time again.

We didn't even know their names beyond the game manufacturers. But out here on the left coast, the pony express was always slow getting us that kind of information.

#372 4 years ago
Quoted from Fulltilt:

I never even thought about the word, "code".

Sure about that?
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#374 4 years ago

Smart phones? Pfffft...

Who needs that when we've got these state of the art communication devices.

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#378 4 years ago

magical

#380 4 years ago
Quoted from Dent00:

People could still take their TV and have repairs done that might consist of replacement of one tube transistor that plugged in. Repair men had tube testing devices and kept stock of various tube sizes and types.

I just use the one down at the local drug store.

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#388 4 years ago

Ah, the good old days. When the first lady didn't have too many responsibilities.

#395 4 years ago
Quoted from hawkmoon:

The 70,s,just a small shade of what the 60,s were all about!! Honestly O-din,I thought U were a hippy,but U were Knot!!!!

In third grade my hair was down to my shoulders, way longer than Tricky Dicks. And we drew peace signs all over our school artwork. We were what you would call junior hippies.
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#396 4 years ago
Quoted from xsvtoys:

Nice summary. I would add:
Disco
It was a pretty big thing for a while. You had to be there.

You guys are forgetting one of the biggest fashion statements of the 20th century.

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#400 4 years ago
Quoted from Orko:

Not going to lie...Wish I would have been around in the 1970’s. Although my nostalgia is for the 80’s to early 90’s, can’t deny what a bad ass era the 70’s were. I keep on lurking in this thread and love all of it.

It was freedom before the 80s clampdown on fun.

I'm thinking about starting a thread about how awesome the 90s were too.

We happened to watch I Come In Peace last night. Total 90s action filled cheese.

#403 4 years ago
Quoted from xsvtoys:

As I recall it, the 80s is when the topless bars were big. A lot of guys spent a lot of time and dollar bills in those things. That's what I heard anyway, I would have no way to know myself.

They were always around even in the 70s but sprung up like weeds during the 90s. Still quite a few in my area including what used to be a couple pool halls down the street. I don't go there anymore.

#416 4 years ago
Quoted from Dent00:

I know it's 1981, but when the taracian defeated loc nar on the Heavy Metal movie, I thought there would never be a better movie.

I'm guessing you never saw Wizards.

#418 4 years ago
Quoted from cottonm4:

Isn't that what Hitler said to Stalin before he steamrolled into Russia?

Totally off topic, but yes.

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#425 4 years ago
Quoted from zombywoof:

Yeah, nothing says the 70s like Ralph Bakshi. Fritz the Cat, Wizards, The Lord of the Rings. Good stuff!

Yes, as much as I like the movie Heavy Metal, it still comes across to me as a poor man's Wizards. A movie we must have seen 10 times before the decade of the 70s was over.

Lord of the Rings was a slight letdown after Wizards and seeing the original Hobbit on TV.

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#427 4 years ago
Quoted from girloveswaffles:

Don't forget Heavy Traffic (with lots of Pinball in it).

Almost forgot about that one.

Add it to the category of things that were done in the 1970s, but wouldn't be done today or really any other time.

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#429 4 years ago

Marketing the early 70s to today's kids?

And I just saved a ton of money by switching to Geico.

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#432 4 years ago
Quoted from vicjw66:

Edit: Brooke Shields did Calvin Klein. But they were basically the same

Brooke Shields was also in a 1970s movie there is no way in hell would ever be made today.

The styling pants from the 70s I remember were called Flares. Not quite bell bottoms but similar.

My buddies and I spent most of our time walking around in OP shorts though.

#434 4 years ago

I was never much of a fancy dresser.

Mostly wore corduroy and denim Levis, but man, when OP arrived on the scene, not just their shorts, but their shirts set the tone if you wanted to look styling at school in the late 70s.

#435 4 years ago

And yes, just like Spicoli, five years before he even existed, I was sporting one of these too.

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#437 4 years ago
Quoted from girloveswaffles:

1973 is asking if O-Din ever listened to music on one of these:

No but I had one of these.

KEZY and KKDJ 102.7 FM baby! Oh and Vin Scully announcing Dodger games.

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#439 4 years ago
Quoted from girloveswaffles:

But did you listen to KLOS or KMET (The Mighty Met!) or even the early days of KROQ?

Sure.

As I was riding my skateboard from the bus to work in Anaheim in 1976, I spotted a billboard with a spiderweb on it that said-

"105.5 KNAC, Once You're Caught, We've Got You"

So I investigated and found the radio station of my choice. Right next to 106 K-WEST

#448 4 years ago
Quoted from mof:

Remember how cool radio stations used to be?
Talk about cool.
-mof

Some were cooler than others even back in the 70s.

Like when they let the DJ pick out the records or he would play one as suggested by someone he might be talking to on the phone. Or even let that someone pay a visit to the station and pick some out then.

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#449 4 years ago
Quoted from mrgone:

American rock radio was Awesome in the 70’s and early 80’s.

80s you say? What have they done to my radio station!

Actually it was a one of a kind and made it to the early 90s, and put the biggest LA corporate rock station KMET out of business.

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#452 4 years ago
Quoted from girloveswaffles:

KMET went "Off the air" because FOX had to sell it when they purchased Metromedia.

I was sure it was because nobody wanted to listen to Jim Ladd drone on any more playing the same old records in between his droning on while KNAC had adopted a new format in the mid 80s playing Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, GNR, and all those other bands corporate rock wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole until it actually sold and made money, then they would come on and play it like it was something new.

I stand corrected.

#454 4 years ago
Quoted from cottonm4:

Oh yes. Clear Channel. The McDonalds of American music. One 30 song play list for the entire country. It's like you never left home.

Where do you think they are getting the inspiration for today's pinball themes?

But I digress...

#455 4 years ago

Lights Out was a landmark album that sort of finally put UFO on the map.

One last hurrah for Michael and the boys before he would pack it up and go.

#458 4 years ago
Quoted from mrgone:

Ralph Bakshi is a personal hero to me.

Wizards was first of a double feature when Song Remains the Same came around the second time so you know we were all primed up when we sat down in that theatre. Had to see it again because I couldn't remember most of it. And again, and again, and again...

#459 4 years ago

1977 wasn't really that big a deal.

#462 4 years ago

How good was the Lights Out album?

Listen to their respect for the Moody Blues.

#464 4 years ago

Since we are getting close to Halloween, a couple familiar faces that were all over the place in the 70s.

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#467 4 years ago
Quoted from cottonm4:

There's Wolfman Jack. I other guy I cannot identify. Who?

The other guy is Seymour.

It may have been local only but he hosted Fright Night and showed horror movies, and was one of the first around here to do so.

#472 4 years ago

Yes, I wasn't alive but remember Vampira for some reason. Maybe they had model kits we could build or something like that.

Another was Saturday afternoon's Chiller.

Didn't really have a host as such, but always showed some green dude in a swamp putting his hand on his face and pushing himself into the water. Mid to late 60s on that one. Perhaps into the 70s.

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/monsterkidclassichorrorforum/chiller-early-70s-los-angeles-t15986.html

#474 4 years ago
Quoted from xsvtoys:

Seymour was eventually replaced by another local Socal person, a certain red-headed female who went on to some fame and even 3 pinball machines.

That's about the time I stopped watching it. I liked Seymour's spiel better. I guess he just didn't have the body to attract so many fans.

#475 4 years ago

Wow! I had the Frigid Pink version on some compilation 8-Track.

#476 4 years ago
Quoted from o-din:

Yes, I wasn't alive but remember Vampira for some reason. Maybe they had model kits we could build or something like that.

Super duper rare now, but yes I built one.

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#478 4 years ago
Quoted from girloveswaffles:

Yup, I remember Chiller being on KTTV back in the early 70's.

Shouldn't we have been outside playing?

We used to call that guy the green man of the swamp. I would love to find a pic or vid clip of that dude.

#479 4 years ago

I know I've told this story before, but I went to one of the first Halloween Haunts at Knott's Berry Farm when it only lasted for a few days, maybe a week at most.

Wolfman Jack was putting on a very entertaining show, and when he waved his cape, the firepots on the stage caught the curtain in the John Wayne Theatre on fire.

My buddy and I sat there as the place emptied out because now it was even more entertaining. We were the last two to leave.
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#483 4 years ago
Quoted from cottonm4:

For some reason, the phrase "lucky to be alive" keeps running through my head .

The doors were in the back of the place and plenty of them, and the stage where the fire was, was in the front. We were sitting in the middle.

At first we thought the fire was just part of the show, until the smoke told us it wasn't.

We were just being courteous, letting everybody else exit the place first.

Seriously though, Wolfman Jack put on one hell of a show!

#485 4 years ago
Quoted from cottonm4:

OK. Lots of doors. But my first thought was the Great White Station fire in 2003.

I was 12 years old and hadn't even heard of Mrs. O'Leary's cow at the time.

Plus you are talking to the guy that got thrown out of Disneyland about the same time for shaking the Skyway buckets and shutting the ride down. Twice before it made it to the station.

You don't think a little fire was going to ruin our fun do you?

Looking back, if I had really been on my game, I would have pointed at this poster as they escorted us out of the park. Sure looks like they are swaying there.
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#486 4 years ago
Quoted from cottonm4:

I had bought tickets to see Jimi Hendrix but my money was refunded due to slow ticket sales.

I would have gone, but was only six years old at the time.

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#489 4 years ago

Holy heck mof, I built all those Aurora glow in the dark monsters.

In the 70s, toy stores had entire sections devoted just to models, where I spent most of my time. They had all the paints to go along with them too.

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#491 4 years ago

Some things are still as good as they ever were.

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#493 4 years ago

Poor guy.

Funny you should say that Lloyd as I remember buying glue was like buying alcohol. Either you had to be 21 or pimp some bum standing out front to buy it for you.

Fast forward to today, and I go to Walmart yesterday, and all the Tide products are in a locked cabinet. None of the other brands, just Tide. I like their original non HE liquid, so I ring a buzzer and a clerk tells me which register to go to where my Tide will be waiting. lol.

I also picked up some Comet so my tub won't be so slippery.

#496 4 years ago
Quoted from cottonm4:

I see the Revel '57 Chevy with a $27.00 price tag. And it is the same kit, same damn car I put together in the 60s for $1.95. Same for the AMT stuff. Overpriced. And they are same car/kits I put together in the 60s. Talk about a product with a long life cycle.

I started out with a 1968 AMT AMC Ambassador I believe. Most model kits in the 70s were under $5.

This is a rare item now, but was the swan song of my model building career in the mid 70s.

A Tamiya 1/25 scale Tiger 1, fully detailed inside and out. So intricate, each track was a separate piece that snapped together and had fully functional torsion bar suspension. Came in a big box.

Price $17. Half my month's paper route money.
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#501 4 years ago
Quoted from cottonm4:

If that Tiger Tank is your build you do some amazing work.

No. Those were the pics they used to show what you are getting. It wasn't actually cut away like that. Timaya did take model building to new level.

#503 4 years ago

Yes, I revisited Tamiya in the 90s.
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#504 4 years ago

The Super Blackfoot was a great platform, but the body was too rigid for excessive jumping. So my buddy taught me the trick. K-Mart sold cheap soft plastic toy cars of the same scale, so I picked up a #43 Richard Petty special and used that body. Now it was good for jumping 20 feet.

#508 4 years ago
Quoted from jhanley:

I had the King Tiger tank that had 2 motors so you could control and turn it. Tamiya was the best model maker by far.

That thing was super cool but a little rich for my blood at the time. Not sure but I remember it being north of $30, perhaps close to $50. I did have some motorized tanks though.

I also remember if you built a Revell tank like the Walker Bulldog, it would come with defective men in the goofiest poses. One even had a hole thru his gut, that looked like a cannon had blown a hole right thru him. lol

Quoted from LTG:

you could build stuff and blow it up too

What do you think happened to my tank models?

#511 4 years ago
Quoted from LTG:

They lost the war. They should have picked a better side.

LTG : )

When I was cleaning out dad's house after he passed away, I found a very old beat up piece of furniture in the garage. I took it to an antique store and the guy said it dated back to the Civil Wa. I asked North or South?

He said "South obviously, can't you tell it lost?"

#514 4 years ago
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#518 4 years ago
Quoted from LTG:I do still have the first pinball machine I ever bought new.

Ballyhoo?

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#526 4 years ago

More 1970s fun.

#531 4 years ago

Who needs acetylene when you can own one of these?

#534 4 years ago

To be fair, the Pinto was way better designed than the standard Vega of the day, and with time would well outlast it.

Speaking of which, call it a glorified Pinto if you like, but this was one sexy looking machine when a buddy of mine showed up with one in high school. I rarely got to ride in it as the passenger seat was usually occupied by one beautiful girl or another.
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#536 4 years ago

Some chassis similarities, but I never saw a Pinto with a 5.0 V-8 with one of these beauties on it. Another fine Ford product of the 1970s.
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#538 4 years ago

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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#539 4 years ago

Standard Vega? Who buys a standard Vega?

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#545 4 years ago
Quoted from MrBally:I remember the Ford World Headquarters sign along I-94 with the big dot matrix incandescent two line display proclaiming "Mercury Capri, European Flavor".

It was a handling champ. The German Pinto 2.0L might have been a forerunner to today's rice tuners.

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#551 4 years ago
Quoted from MrBally:

That's the Sizzlers "Juice Machine".

Sure. You wedged a nickel on the side of the top of the thing so you didn't have to hold it down. Then along came the Power Pit.

Quoted from vicjw66:

Geez Odin, enough with the gawdawful cars of the 70s.

We called that fine European sports car the "Crapi"

#553 4 years ago

My buddy had the "Honey Bee" version of that.

The first of my many Toyotas was one of these. 1976 though and green in color. I bought from a a guy named Ivan Ho.
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#556 4 years ago
Quoted from girloveswaffles:

My first car was a '76 Corolla DX Wagon.

Your car had that wonderful 2TC hemi engine. My Corona was sporting a 20R. Hard to go wrong with either.

#557 4 years ago

No, nothing at all whatsoever to do with the 70s, but for a spell during the 90s I was tooling around in one of these gems. Talk about good gas mileage.

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#561 4 years ago
Quoted from girloveswaffles:

Old School DatSun?

Yep. I was working used cars at the Datsun dealer in 1991 and some guy traded it in with a blown motor. I paid $100.

Went to Watanabe, that place that used to advertise low milage Jap engines in the Recycler and they had a stack of 1300s much to my surprise. I hand picked a clean looking one and paid $75. I was now ready to live cheap and take some time off. 1970s revisited so to speak.

#564 4 years ago
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#578 4 years ago

I opened up a box last night.

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#597 4 years ago
Quoted from girloveswaffles:

1968 called. They'd like their Disneyland map back.

Yep, you nailed it. It says copyright 1968 on it although I believe I acquired it in the early 70s.

My friend and I were looking at it and discussing how much better Disneyland was then. When I had that on my wall, we wondered how that space port and rocket ride would be and how the cars or trains would run through all those tracks coming out of the top of the building.

#599 4 years ago

I've got some pretty early memories of the land going as far back as 1964 when I was only 2 getting scared I was going to fly out of the Astro-Jets, to the next trip being bummed they had removed the Midget Autopia and some new attraction was being built there, to walking into Tomorrowland and being wowed after the 1967 makeover.

I've got a friend a few years older who actually rode the short lived Flying Saucers.

In the 70s it was more of a teenage hangout and not as well kept up as it is today. Prices were much cheaper to get in too. There are some pretty neat details on that map of a lot of the things that are no longer there.

I was not impressed at all when they opened the freshly revamped Tomorrowland in the late 90s. They more took a bunch of stuff out, than significantly added anything new.

#602 4 years ago
Quoted from Atari_Daze:

But do you think that might have been because you were older and less easily impressed? I know for me so many things are deflated now that I have an understanding of how things work (damn TV show).

Nope. I just watched a 15 minute video why Tomorrowland's 1998 makeover was a fail.

It was planned as an entire Tomorrowland 2055 themed land with a complete makeover and new rides, but they had money issues if you can believe that, because Euro Disneyland was a financial disaster when it opened, so they basically painted the old Tomorrowland to look like Discoveryland Paris. And meanwhile took out most of the beloved attractions that used to be there. And the new ride, the Rocket Rods that replaced the People Mover broke down and was removed shortly thereafter.

#604 4 years ago
Quoted from CrazyLevi:

It really is amazing how everything in the entire universe was way cooler when Odin was 15 than it is now that he's 60. Probably just a coincidence.

Not at all. I am more impressed with Twisted Colossus now than I ever was when that rickety old Colossus first opened. Rides like Tatsu and Goliath didn't even exist back then although there were some memorable coasters.

It's Disneyland that failed with their Tomorrowland makeover. Although they have upgraded it a bit since then, none of the overhead attractions like the Peoplemover, the Skyway, or the Rocket Jets are there any more. Rides in the sky are history, but there is still the elevated, decaying old Peoplemover track for people to marvel over.

#606 4 years ago
Quoted from rotordave:

When they took out the Country Bears, and replaced them with that crappy Winnie the poo kids ride, that was the last straw.

Country Bears when it opened was the beginning of the end. lol.

We can always do Magic Mountain and or Knotts when you are in town.

Perhaps riding X-2 again will help take out that kink in the neck it provides.

#609 4 years ago
Quoted from Dent00:

When my family went back, we rode that ride about "Its a small world" and everybody was creeped out.

That's what replaced the Midget Autopia.

There was at one time three different Autopias, down to one now, the most recent still running dirty gas engines last time I was there. Only a matter of time before that goes away too.

#611 4 years ago
Quoted from xsvtoys:

That said, I haven’t been to the new a Star Wars land yet. I don’t have a particular burning desire to go there but it will happen sooner than later. And I’m a big Star Wars fan. Those 3 Star Wars movies they made are great!

I have it on good authority from my friend the annual pass holder, it is a dud. The waits and reservations to get in there turned to ghost town after a few short weeks. They might as well have left the all you can eat BBQ or the goat petting zoo there.

However, I had a couple friends from out of state visit, and they seemed to like it.

#615 4 years ago
Quoted from NY2Colorado:

3 kids riding in the "way back" of the station wagon, zero seatbelts.

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#617 4 years ago
Quoted from CrazyLevi:

I too get misty-eyed for a time when children were far more likely to get killed by a drunk driver while crammed into a car without wearing a seatbelt.
They were simpler times.

That got me thinking about some of the drivers ed movies they used to show us like Red Asphalt. But they got nothing on some of the older ones like Traffic With The Devil from the 1940s I happened to record off Turner and watch last week. Looking forward to watching The Bottle and the Throttle next.

#623 4 years ago

In the 70s even riding in the bed, we no worry about accidents.

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#625 4 years ago
Quoted from jamesmc:

1978-I'm 18 and my mom gets me a part time job at the liquor store next to where she worked. I came home with the keys to the store. Promoted to running the store in 1 day.

I had a job at a liquor store age 14-17 and they would leave me alone to run the place often. The old men didn't seem to care if they were buying their Burgie or Thunderbird from a 14 year old or not. Job had a lot of perks too.

#627 4 years ago
Quoted from cottonm4:

Now that you mention it, although it was the 60s and the Highway Patrol movie was made in 1959, Signal 30, in all of its gory and blood is on You Tube.

Yes, I know a lot of this is stuff from before the 70s, but we watched a lot of reruns in that decade.

#630 4 years ago

Yes, the only thing that was difficult to buy was model glue.

#632 4 years ago
Quoted from LTG:

Nothing like waking up reliving rolling a car four or five times, or in a cold sweat flying off a motorcycle.

Or driving off a cliff in my Galaxie 500, or even flipping a Boston Whaler and watching that 50 horse Mercury prop spinning out of control waiting for it to come down and hit me and slice me to pieces.

Good times indeed.

#635 4 years ago

Funny, I mentioned not getting in an accident in that F-250, until Sam, the guy that owned it rolled it on the freeway with nobody else in it.

#642 4 years ago

Safe.

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#643 4 years ago
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#646 4 years ago

The golden age of Mad Magazine.

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#648 4 years ago

The kids owned our street. Cars had to wait until the next out if we were playing baseball.

#651 4 years ago
Quoted from NY2Colorado:

Anyone else have a hippity hop?

The girl next door had one. I used to like to watch her bounce.

#656 4 years ago
Quoted from golfingdad1:

I'm sure those original Disney maps are worth something .

Yes, it is worth taking out of the box every twenty years. I also got a kick out of thumbing thru some of those old Mad books.

#657 4 years ago

#662 4 years ago
Quoted from girloveswaffles:

It's good to know Sergio Aragones is still around and doing comics. Here he is at San Diego Comic Con this past July:
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He's about the only one left, right? I liked them all. Dave Berg drew some great characters that looked like people in real life and was hilarious.

For me though, Don Martin was the man!

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#663 4 years ago

I've owned several vehicles from the 70s and although not a big fan of English built cars, I couldn't resist picking one of these up when the opportunity presented itself.

It was super fast and fun to drive, but a real challenge to adjust the valves and stop any oil leaks.
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#668 4 years ago
Quoted from Dent00:

That machine looks really clean... Looks like something you might see in a car show..

That wasn't mine but looked almost like it. Solid ride.

#670 4 years ago

We've got scenes from Dazed and Confused too. A movie from the 1990s.

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#691 4 years ago

Earlier in this thread I posted a picture of myself kneeling next to a surfboard and a bunch of 8 Tracks.

I clearly remember this is what was burning up that turntable about that time.

#700 4 years ago
Quoted from NY2Colorado:

anyone remember what ADIDAS stood for?

I'm still trying to figure out what PF stands for.

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#709 4 years ago
Quoted from poppapin:

Everybody had PF Fliers, until Chuck Taylor Converse were the sneeks to have.

Although I wanted to run faster and fly higher, I never owned them.

And even these with their flat soles and top rim that ate at your ankle, made it hard to get off the ground. We went to the store because they had a Hot Wheels section. With cars and track you could not get any where else. We sacrificed and bought the shoes too.
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