You might be a child in the 70s if:

[lr64]

While some of the photos posted were favorites of mine at the time, I've noticed there seem to be significant numbers of female participants in this hobby. Although I'm not particularly fond of beefcake, cheesecake by itself isn't especially welcoming to those made with other inclinations.

Unfortunately, this makes me think of the infamous Bobby vs. Billie tennis match, which I'd rather not. And now the rest of you who remember must suffer along with me.

 

[Rob Campbell]

ABBA!

 

[Art Upton]

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[lr64]

ABBA!

I suppose it's only fair that you inflict that on me after I inflicted the ancient tennis match on you, but other people are suffering, too.

I also suppose Hawkwind is too obscure.

 

[Steven]

Did anyone actually read the titles on these?

Queen: "An Afternoon At The Free Clinic."

 

[Cape Byron]

Did anyone actually read the titles on these?

Lou Reed - ‘Sally Can’t Cook Either’.

Just hysterical.

 

[John Kemker]

I suppose it's only fair that you inflict that on me after I inflicted the ancient tennis match on you, but other people are suffering, too.

I also suppose Hawkwind is too obscure.

Absolutely not!

My first Hawkwind album was Warrior on the Edge of Time. I *just* bought Chronicle of the Black Sword on vinyl from someone in the UK.

 

[John Kemker]

Lou Reed - ‘Sally Can’t Cook Either’.

Just hysterical.

Johnny Cash -- Fightin' Cock Ring

 

[MALBAR 70]

Blue Öyster Cult

 

[Azamiryou]

You remember when your family made the switch from black-and-white to color TV

1993 for us.

 

[DHays]

TV dinners in the aluminum foil trays.

 

[jqavins]

Too many at once.

- you remember long lines at the gas stations and gassing up only on odd/even number days. Yes
-you remember gas pumps showing liters instead of gallons. No.
-your first computer had two 5 1/4" floppy drives and no hard drive. My first computer had no mass storage, and the next one used audio cassettes. Floppies were what you longed for.

 

[goose_in_co]

You found a hard Hat and wrote "Skylab is falling!" on it in

 

[lr64]

I remember that, on Mass Ave in Cambridge, one of the dorms at MIT had a big parachute hanging upside down over the courtyard, with a big sign that said something like "Skylab Recovery Project, Group A". The internet doesn't know about this, though, so it never really happened.

 

[Mugs914]

Television test patterns after midnight.

Staying up so you could watch the Blue Angels or that F-104 during the National Anthem just before the station signed off.

Oh, was that just me?

 

[Mugs914]

Mama using said Hot Wheels track when you misbehaved.

Oh yes... Got more than my fair share of that!

 

[jsdemar]

“I’m not a crook!”

 

[tsmmiller]

You remember when your family made the switch from black-and-white to color TV (unless you were "rich" and you already had it by 1970).

s6

Never had a TV until 1974.
Dad got sent to Utapo, Thailand. We stayed in Mtn Home and got our first TV.
Mom got it selling Tupperware!

 

[tsmmiller]

Staying up so you could watch the Blue Angels or that F-104 during the National Anthem just before the station signed off.

Oh, was that just me?

High Flight is the one I always longed for.
Edit:
@Mugs914, I had to go find it. You Tube has everything!
So here we are, Your F-104 to John Gillespie Magee Jr’s “High Flight”

 

[kuririn]

World Book Encyclopedia.
Encyclopedia Brittanica.
Going to the library to research a paper for school.

 

[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.

We didn't wear leisure suits, we wore garanimals.

 

[Hobie1dog]

the B.A.S.S. fishing craze

Horn rock bands

 

[jqavins]

The day Nixon resigned.

 

[Hobie1dog]

You had a big block muscle car

 

[jflis]

When gas first went over $0.99/gal and they had to tape a hand written “1” in front of the price cuz pumps didn’t have the dollar digit…

 

[prfesser]

Calling collect to a pay phone.

"Yes, I'd like to place a collect call to HiDaditsaboy!" "Sorry sir, the party isn't available" "That's ok, I'll try later"

When a long-distance call was almost two bucks** a minute, plus collect charges...this dodge was common. Operators knew and they played along. [**1970s dollars; for reference $1(1970s) ~3 or 4 loaves of bread...]

 

[cls]

When gas first went over $0.99/gal and they had to tape a hand written “1” in front of the price cuz pumps didn’t have the dollar digit…

Somehow the pumps around here got recalibrated in liters instead of gallons. That held off the $1 issue, but sure destroyed trust in gas companies and gubbermint. We got new pumps with an extra digit per gallon pretty quickly.

 

[prfesser]

How could I forget the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company?!! A&P was THE grocery store; dad used to drive trucks for them on the weekends.

 

[Mugs914]

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

 

[Michael L]

- 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.

I never saw liters. I sure saw the lines. I also saw .20/gal before that. No computers where I went to High School (grad 1976).

I shouldn’t post in here being born 30 years later but…

Not being able to access any information you desired (and plenty you don’t) instantly.

Back in the day we were taught this thing called reading. There was this other thing called a library. They sort of went together. In the third grade my parents purchased the Encyclopedia Brittanica and some kind of science book series. I read all of them cover to cover. Instant can be over rated. I'm not sure if we are better off now or not. Hang on while I go Google that.

Staying up so you could watch the Blue Angels or that F-104 during the National Anthem just before the station signed off.

Oh, was that just me?

I remember the National Anthem. Someone already said it but I think this came after?:

High Flight​

BY JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE JR.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air ....

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor ever eagle flew—
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

"Untrespassed sanctity of space" Welp... that's over...