I Don’t Miss The Seventies At All July 22, 2009
Posted by Michael in History.trackback
That had to be the worst decade ever. Nixon, Watergate, Disco, Jonestown, and Patty Hearst. Can you think of a worse decade in terms of domestic politics and culture?
Of course not. This guy I know even wore polyester leisure suits. No kidding. Looking back, I can’t believe how dorky he looked.
Fortunately, he avoided an even bigger fashion mistake.
At least the price is reasonable
Let’s all pray that something like this never happens again.
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But — it comes with a belt.
Old guys were wearing jumpsuits all the time back then. Kind of the track suit of today’s sixty something lazy ass.
The first hoodie?
The 70′s – When safe sex was a padded headboard!
I worked at a garage in the 70′s that we had to wear a navy blue uniform that was similar. It did not have a hood. It did have Vmaximus embroidered above my left moob.
Part of the problem is that the 60′s were so great that the 70′s seemed like just a big hangover.
In the 60′s we had race riots and huge anti-war demonstrations where a good time was had by all. We had the blossoming of rock and roll and soul music. We had Woodstock and weed. We had Levis and tie-dyed T-shirts and sandals.
Most of all, we had Barbara Eden on I Dream of Genie. Brewfan used to spank his monkey furiously to his Barbara Eden poster, I’m sure. (Being Lutheran, I did not indulge in such nonsense.)
Looks pretty comfy to me.
Mmmmmmm, Barbara Eden. http://tiny.pl/hhwxx
Most guys (other than me) were secretly rooting for Roger to get control of Jeannie’s bottle, because we all knew what Roger was going to do when he was in charge and Jeannie had to grant his every wish.
Roger would do the same stuff that Brewfan was thinking about. Really improper, un-Lutheran stuff.
You’d think that guy would have thought about perhaps …stuffing.
Just saying.
Hmmm, Carin, I had not actually noticed, but you are right. The bulge is not all that impressive.
I’m glad you made this observation before Pupster did.
Do not forget bell bottoms!
Ha!
Me Too! (re Roger and BE)
There’s also flaired pants and platform shoes…I do not like the seventies, I do not like them, Sam-I-am…and was all music shitty back then too?
was all music shitty back then too?
Well, no.
I seem to recall groups like AC/DC and Styx and Aerosmith and Jethro Tull and Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac doing some credible work in the 70s.
I could be wrong.
I forgot to mention REO Speedwagon. And the Ozark Mountain Daredevils.
also, the 70s did produce “Taxi Driver”, so that’s a plus.
Margaret Thatcher took office in 1979, so that’s another plus.
BTW, somebody from Greenland showed up here. Greenland only has about 60,000 people, and they speak Inuit and Danish.
But they’re Lutheran!!!
Welcome, my Greenlander brother (or sister)!!!!!
Did you know that Greenland is the largest island on the planet — more than three times as big as Texas?
“And the Ozark Mountain Daredevils.”
I found their website a few Christmases ago and replaced my brother’s LPs with CDs from their site.
http://www.ozarkdaredevils.com/
I miss that synthetic fabric girls wore to proms and stuff, what the hell was it called? Quiana?
Man oh man, it was like dancing with a chick in a nightgown. Holy moly.
Can I get an AH MEN?
I don’t think I’ve ever actually had a nightgown. Maybe when I was really, really little, but mostly I slept in big shirts, until the pajama set thing came along. (My sister got me pajamas for Christmas several years in a row, so now I have a drawerful of them.)
Barbara Eden was a cutie. I don’t get the lust thing, though. I mean, sure, you could see her midriff, but the character always struck me as fundamentally very innocent. I would think she would inspire a protective reaction rather than a lecherous reaction.
(You guys are messing up my theories again. That was my new theory for why men aren’t attracted to me – they’re too gentlemanly to want to spoil my presumed innocence. Well, that one’s out the window, and now I have to go back to the explanation I like the least: it’s the effect of my charming personality.)
Oh man, Peel, you’re killing me.
I would think she would inspire a protective reaction rather than a lecherous reaction.
Thus explaining the nineteen bajillion school girl outfits sold to adults on a yearly basis.
Mrs. Peel should try wearing the Catholic School Girl outfit to work.
Just as an experiment.
In other news, I’m working the Journey / Heart concert on Sunday. I’m looking forward to seeing the new lead singer for Journey. Did you know he got the job because they saw him on YouTube?
Too bad the Heart babes are such Liberal Twits, they put out some good tunes.
they put
outon somegood tunespounds.Fixed!
Ask them if they’ll play your favorite Heart song: Sarahcuda (after you get your check).
Seventies silly music highlights:
Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road
The Streak
Cherokee People
Chevy Van
If we didn’t have the 70′s, we would have never had Young Frankenstein.
I’d say that between that, and the 1979 Porsche 911, the rest of the crap (American Graffitti, P-Funk, The Bad News Bears, The Ramones), was almost worth it.
For all the awesomeness that was Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind, it gets nullified by all the anti-awesomeness of Smokey and the Bandit. So that’s a wash.
There was also that Star Wars thing… And the first Star Trek movie. And Rocky I and II.
The 70′s were awesome. The 80′s is when rock ‘n roll died.
You are going to get my pollyester liesure suit of my cold dead body.
Nope, we’ll be happy to bury it with you, thanks anyway.