You might be a child in the 70s if:

[teepot]

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My wife's parents had a yellow Brat. And no it wasn't my wife.

 

[kuririn]

Bill Walton
John Wooden
Keith Wilkes.
Swen Nater, Walton's backup was the starting center for the 1972 US Olympic basketball team.
Remember reading that he quit the team because he didn't like the food or something.
Tom Henderson, Univ. of Hawaii guard, was also on that team.
The infamous gold medal basketball game in the '72 Olympics.
We wuz robbed!

 

[Lee]

When a Honda Civic was a sub-subcompact.
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My mother had a bright yellow one, and my big brother had a chocolate brown one.

We had a local Oldsmobile/Honda dealer who ran a buy one/get one promo. Buy an Olds, get a free Civic.

 

[ksaves2]

IYKYK!

So THAT'S where the "cheeseboogie, cheeseboogie!" SNL bit came from!! Used to watch SNL a lot back then as the Belushi brothers graduated from the same high school I was in. Jim is out in Oregon on his ranch raising legal cannabis in green houses now.

When starting college in 1975 at IBC in Lisle, Illinois people pounded on my dorm door one Saturday night and said, "You gotta see this show SNL! They gotta a guy from Wheaton, Illinois on it!" I didn't know John but I did know of Jim and Jim stepped in to protect me from a bully one time using humor. Jim is two years older than me and there was no friendship there. I just recognized he was the one that saved me when I was a freshman and would see him roaming the halls during break.

Jim was in dramatics and play performance back then. Would always get busted for "Smok'in in the boys room" and suspended.
One time he was supposed to headline in a high school play but got caught, "Smok'in in the boys room." The stupid assistant principal thought
prohibiting Jim from being in the play was appropriate punishment. Jim then just coached his understudy for the part like crazy so his understudy
could pull it off.
Kurt

 

[ksaves2]

my parents went crazy with us kids singing this song LOL

I think the Frito Bandito was voiced by the great Mel Blanc (a.k.a. Bugs Bunny and a zillion other characters) Man I remember these ads.
the stereotypes certainly wouldn't fly today but we were more innocent back then. (Except the hippies!) :-0

 

[prfesser]

We had a local Oldsmobile/Honda dealer who ran a buy one/get one promo. Buy an Olds, get a free Civic.

With gas prices today, it'd be "buy a Civic, get a clunky gas-guzzler free!"

 

[Docdrew]

You might remember some of these -

Books/fads
EST
Transactional Analysis - "I'm OK, You're OK"
Luscher Color Test book
The Godfather
Papillon
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Gravity's Rainbow
Zen and the Art of Motercycle Maint.
Helter Skelter
Jonathan Livinston Seagull
The Day of the Jackal
Carrie
Jaws
Interview with the Vampire
The World According to Garp
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Summer of 42

I read a lot back then, still do. I'd read a book, then a year or two later, a movie would be made. My friends would be really excited about the movie, but almost no one had read the book. I guess things haven't changed much...

Three Days of the Condor

 

[jsdemar]

Three Days of the Condor

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

 

[Knundrm]

I remember getting the SSP racers for Christmas

I had the Cox 049 dragsters!

 

[Knundrm]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Slapstick with Paul Neuman and the Hansen Brothers!

 

[Mugs914]

Slapstick with Paul Neuman and the Hansen Brothers!

Slapshot...

A true classic. Got it on DVD (remember those? )!

 

[teepot]

The Mayaguez incident.

 

[jqavins]

"Surely you remember Airplane!"

"I do remember Airplane!, and don't call me Shirley."

 

[kuririn]

"Surely you remember Airplane!"

"I do remember Airplane!, and don't call me Shirley."

"Johnny, what do you make out of this?"

 

[MarsLander]

 

[Knundrm]

If y

If you remember listening to most, or all, of these songs on the radio

 

[Knundrm]

Saw this, or similar, ad in your local paper

 

[John Kemker]

You ever sang the "McDonald's is your kind of place! Hamburgers in your face! French Fries between your toes! Dill pickles up your nose!

You remember the difference between Almond Joy and Mounds. Y'know, 'cause sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.

 

[Cape Byron]

 

[NTP2]

Watching this on a film projector in gradeschool…

I’m not entirely sure why they showed you it, I was entertained at the least.

@CalebJ why are you so surprised?

 

[Cape Byron]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyland_P76
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Could fit a 44 gallon drum in the boot.

Alloy V8

 

[OverTheTop]

TVs with vertical and horizontal hold knobs.

 

[cerving]

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I remember people saying how worthless the Brat was... and guess what? Hyundai just came out with a mini pickup, and I bet some others do too. Those bed-mounted jump seats were scary...

 

[MarsLander]

 

[MarsLander]

 

[teepot]

Drinking age was 18. Then it wasn't.

 

[jqavins]

"Drinking age" wasn't even a term.

 

[Knundrm]

You ever sang the "McDonald's is your kind of place! Hamburgers in your face! French Fries between your toes! Dill pickles up your nose!

You remember the difference between Almond Joy and Mounds. Y'know, 'cause sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.

Don't know if anyone else remembers this, but there was either a fad, an advertisement or contest challenging people to say the ingredients of a Big Mac backwards as fast as they could in the mid 70's. My wife can still say the ingredients backwards to this day.

 

[Capt. Eric]

TVs with vertical and horizontal hold knobs.

Kids today have no idea what that means.
Related to tv's, my father had an early remote control for his tv. Worked like this:
"Eric, change it to channel 7."
"Carl, turn the volume up."
"Andrew, adjust the antenna wire."

 

[Knundrm]

Drinking age was 18. Then it wasn't.

And in some parts of the country (TX), you could drive with an open container in your car.