You might be a child of the 70's if you watched Star Wars on the big screen more than once
Han shot first.
Han shot first.
You might be a child in the 70s if:
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Monty Python and Bennie Hill on PBS Saturday nights
1972.
When you pulled into a gas station there were still attendants who checked your oil, coolant level, tire pressure and wiped your windshield. That was my first part time job. I was a senior in high school.
The mechanics used to pull us over to help them when we weren't busy at the pumps.
Learned a lot about cars at that job.
Ethyl was 39.9 cents/gal.
A new Jaguar XKE was a whopping $9000.
A new subcompact was $2000.
Added mods to my car from stuff I ordered from JC Whitney.
Japanese cars were considered tin can death traps.
The "good" old days.
When you pulled into a gas station there were still attendants who checked your oil, coolant level, tire pressure and wiped your windshield. That was my first part time job. I was a senior in high school.
The mechanics used to pull us over to help them when we weren't busy at the pumps.
Learned a lot about cars at that job.
Ethyl was 39.9 cents/gal.
A new Jaguar XKE was a whopping $9000.
A new subcompact was $2000.
Added mods to my car from stuff I ordered from JC Whitney.
Japanese cars were considered tin can death traps.
The "good" old days.
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The Heathkit catalog
The Lafayette Radio catalog
The McGee Radio catalog
The B&F Enterprises catalog
The Lafayette Radio catalog
The McGee Radio catalog
The B&F Enterprises catalog
Hanging out at Radio Shack
Doctor Who on PBS.
I remember: If the local hobby shop didn't have it, having to fill out the Estes or Centuri order sheet, begging Mom or Dad to get a money order and then waiting six to eight weeks for the order to show up. It was like Christmas when it did.
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If you remember when you still had hair.
(70's selfie...)
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(70's selfie...)
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How many times?
For me it was 17 times. My best friend was over 125 times.
The closest theater to have it playing was in Boise, a 45 mile drive away.
It was held over in the theater for over a year. Those don't happen now.
Watching Jaws and wondering what all the fuss was about.
I do remember, but have not much any more.
Lets see; slightly belled pants, disco shirt, David Cassidy hair, beer barrel bottle, cute girlfriend soon to be wife, and oh a wooden console TV.
You might be a child of the '70s if you remember:
"Up, up with people
You meet them wherever you go
Up, up with people
They're the best kind of folks we know
If more people
Were for.............."
Anyways.
"Up, up with people
You meet them wherever you go
Up, up with people
They're the best kind of folks we know
If more people
Were for.............."
Anyways.
Glass-packed mufflers on your muscle car
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Ahhhh...that smell...
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About 15 years ago, I drove by a carbon paper factory in rural East Texas. Overgrown with weeds and boarded up windows.
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Waiting in a line that ran around the ice rink at the Galleria in Houston to see Star Wars when it first came out.
Learning to play D&D from a small white box with three little booklets and being excited that Greyhawk, Blackmoor, and Eldritch Wizardry came out.
Learning to play D&D from a small white box with three little booklets and being excited that Greyhawk, Blackmoor, and Eldritch Wizardry came out.
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Ah yes... the local Radio Shack was 1/2 block away from me. I spent so much time there that the manager used to give me some of his returned "broken" stuff. (FYI, Radio Shack didn't have a "return to factory" policy since they WERE the factory. The stores were required to absorb the cost if it was under $100 retail.) I made an R/C radio set out of a couple of "bad" walkie talkies (on Channel 14, of course)... I was probably in 6th grade or so.
I came in a little later than that. AD&D, studying virtually every word of the Player's Handbook (and of course the other books later).
Dirty Purples!!!
Gas wars. Around 1972, a couple stations opposite one another in Altoona brought the price down to around 25 cents a gallon before it stopped.
Bazooka bubble gum with the Bazooka Joe comic inside went up from 1 cent to 2, and it felt like the end of the world; 100% inflation!
Brand new 2 stroke Yamaha RD 350 motorcycles.
Getting your motorcycle license by simply showing up at the Police station.
Getting your motorcycle license by simply showing up at the Police station.
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