You might be a child in the 70s if:

[Alan R]

You spent $15 on substances that put your mind into an altered state and then you listened to Firesign Theater.

Everything you know is wrong.

 

[K'Tesh]

Collecting S&H Greenstamps

 

[K'Tesh]

- you remember long lines at the gas stations and gassing up only on odd/even number days.
-you remember gas pumps showing liters instead of gallons.
-your first computer had two 5 1/4" floppy drives and no hard drive.
-you wore bell bottoms and a dashiki.
Or a leisure suit.

Oh... And the TRASH80 had 4 KB of DRAM standard memory, and an audio cassette drive, not one of those fancy expensive 5.25" drives.

 

[Kabulrocks]

Klick-klacks
John Denver
Mood rings

 

[K'Tesh]

Klick-klacks
John Denver
Mood rings

Moog Music

 

[kuririn]

Pet rocks

 

[jsdemar]

Ronco... "order yours now before midnight and receive this bonus set of...."

"But wait, there's more!"

 

[Art Upton]

When you found out about the floppy disk hack where you could cut a notch on the opposite side of the first notch
and have a dual sided floppy

And then less than a year later they sold them already that way with both sides notched

 

[Art Upton]

Chrysler Cordoba.
"Rich, Corinthian leather"

A favorite of the leader of the Superior Breed and intellect , Khan

 

[Mugs914]

Those I somewhat miss.

Me too...

"Peel back foil to expose mashed potatoes"...

 

[cerving]

Your girlfriend and you exchanged mood rings... and you looked at her ring before opening your mouth.

 

[cvanc]

K-Tel records

 

[TALON]

Abbot and Costello movie every Sunday at 11:30 an WPIX-11, and the next movie, AT 1:00, was a Danny Kaye movie about one week in two or three.

Sony Fox, Just For Fun, well that was the 60s.

 

[K'Tesh]

K-Tel records

No Relation...

 

[prfesser]

- you remember long lines at the gas stations and gassing up only on odd/even number days.
-you remember gas pumps showing liters instead of gallons.
-your first computer had two 5 1/4" floppy drives and no hard drive.
-you wore bell bottoms and a dashiki.
Or a leisure suit.

Bell bottoms AND a leisure suit. And baggies, remember cuffed bell bottoms that didn't remotely cling to the legs? And platform shoes. Brother went to his prom in 76 in a white ruffled shirt, lilac-purple vest-and-bell-bottom jumpsuit and matching bowtie, and platform shoes. Sounds ludicrous but he could carry off the look.

All these posts are linking other memories in this brain.

Additions:

• Hitchhiking. College was 20 mi away. I could easily get home in 30-40 min max.
• Razors that had one replaceable blade. Either one or two edges, but one blade. (Admittedly the multi-blades do a better job.)
• Model airplanes with small, loud 'gas' engines, that you "flew" by turning round and round. Actually I mostly crashed them, then threw up.
• Metal shop AND wood shop! Power tools, sharp metal, hot metal, molten metal, obscene amounts of electricity...what was not to like? And Home Ec. (One school changed the name to 'Bachelor Living' and doubled enrollment.)

 

[Sooner Boomer]

You remember The Midnight Special and Don Kirshner's rock concert. Came on right before the Blue Angels...

You remember *the original* Midnight Special. 18 year olds had just gotten the vote. A bunch of rock stars got together to get out the vote. Wikipedia says this was the pilot for the series, and aired on August 19, 1972.

 

[Sooner Boomer]

Olga Korbut and Nadia Comaneci.

Kukla, Fran, and Ollie

 

[Sooner Boomer]

Listening to American Top 40 with Casey Kasem on your local AM radio station while cruising Main Street.

The King Biscuit Flour Hour and Dr. Demento on Sunday nights.

 

[K'Tesh]

The King Biscuit Flour Hour and Dr. Demento on Sunday nights.

Aunt Jemima Syrup
Uncle Ben's Rice

 

[cwbullet]

Aunt Jemima Syrup
Uncle Ben's Rice

Can’t buy them under those names anymore.

 

[John Kemker]

Can’t buy them under those names anymore.

At least Uncle Ben's renamed itself "Ben's Original," unlike "Pearl Milling Company." /smh

 

[TALON]

All in one TV/Radio/Record Player console

 

[K'Tesh]

Going to Monkey Wards (Montgomery Wards), or K Mart... or drooling over the Sears Christmas Catalog toys section (or sitting on them and/or the phonebook/yellowpages for Thanksgiving/Christmas dinner).

Eating at A&W's in the car, under the awning. Eating at Taco Time, or the cringeworthy named "Sambos". KFC being only known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, and freely handing out lemon scented handwipes with every order. McDonalds still having only "Over a billion served" on their signs.

Absolutely zero multiplex theaters (unless you count the drive in's 2nd screen). Piling all your friends into the car (and hiding a couple of them under blankets) while going into the drive in on Friday night.

 

[K'Tesh]

All in one TV/Radio/Record Player console

Dad having a portable record player/amplifier and scaring the C**P out of the neighborhood kids on Halloween with his scary moans and sound effects broadcast just over the porch with it. Only the bravest (or hearing impaired) few would dare to come to our door (and we'd end up with all the candy we collected, as well as all that mom had bought but didn't hand out).

Vacuum-formed Darth Vader masks with a black cape and a homemade cardboard box control panel to complete the costume.

 

[K'Tesh]

Grandma's annual canning marathon (dill pickles, sweet pickles, peaches, cherries, etc.)

 

[Art Upton]

K-Tel records

Kraco Car Stereos - With K-Tel 8 track tapes

 

[lr64]

Sinclair ZX-80. Enough memory for, as I recall, 40 lines of code. I assembled one from a kit. Hundreds of pins to solder, no IC sockets, just straight to the chip. Miraculously, it worked. For what it was worth. As I recall, it came with 1k memory and the expansion was 4. TV for a monitor, but not all TVs worked. No wonder I didn't become a programmer.

update:
OOPS! The ZX-80 missed the '70s by 29 days, according to Wikipedia.

 

[bobby_hamill]

and they still sell these

 

[bobby_hamill]

every Saturday Morning at 5 am myself and brother and sister would watch "Sunrise Theater" or "Shock Theater"
Bowman Body Show !!

 

[farsidius]

Oh... And the TRASH80 had 4 KB of DRAM standard memory, and an audio cassette drive, not one of those fancy expensive 5.25" drives.

Learned to program Basic on a Commodore PET with a cassette drive. I remember having a sheet of paper taped to the desk with a handwritten index of how far to fast forward to get to the next program on the tape. I would get soooo pissed when I would run out of memory when coding my text-based adventure games. Life was rough, but also good.