1970's
8-Track Tape Player
Developed as a car accessory to give drivers an alternate to listening to radio stations so they could listen to their own song selections. Motorola manufactured the first players, which were installed in Ford automobiles. Many record companies were quick to put many of their artists on the new format, but by the mid 1970's, most record labels had stopped producing music in 8-Track tape format because the quality was not good and they were bulky and inconvenient. Cassette tapes and vinyl records replaced 8-Tracks by the late 1970's.
String Art
Considered to be pop art, this fad was a challenge. You could choose from a variety of unassembled kits ranging from ships to animals. The kits included a board (often covered in black velvet), nails, and enough string that had to be wound around the nails as instructed. They took many hours to complete and could hung on the wall as a conversation piece.
Streakers
People started the craze of taking off all their clothes and running across the field at major sporting events. A streaker ran across the stage of the Oscars in 1973 while it was being broadcast live on TV. There was even a 1970's song written about streakers called "The Streaker". Streaking was popular for only a couple years and soon faded, probably because people were being arrested for streaking.
Sayings
Do Your Own Thing!: - Be yourself! Do what you want to do. "I got a few acres out in the country where I can do my own thing".
Laid Back: - Someone relaxed, easygoing. A place that's cool. "I've been to the commune, it's real laid back."
Dig It : - To understand. "Dig it?" To like something. "I really dig the Monkees."
If it feels good ...do it: - Don't be inhibited, explore what life has in store for you
Whizzers
They looked like a top and you could roll the tip across the floor to get just the tip spinning and then set it down and watch it go.
Pet Rocks
More than a million people bought Pet Rocks as Christmas gifts in 1975. Gary Dahl, of Los Gatos, California, had the idea while joking with friends about his easy-to-care-for pet, a rock. This pet ate nothing and didn't bark or chew the furniture. Pet Rocks were sold with a funny manual that included tips on how to handle an excited rock and how to teach it tricks. By 1976, Gary Dahl was a millionaire and Pet Rocks were the nation's favorite pet.
Mopeds
In 1974, the United States was in the midst of a national fuel crisis due to the OPEC oil embargo. Travelers were forced to wait in lines for hours just to get a tank of gas. Most cars to that point were not very fuel-efficient and people looked for a new method of transportation, which could allow them to travel efficiently and reasonably.
The moped, which was half bicycle / half motorcycle had existed for years in Europe but had not made it to the United States, in part because of safety restrictions implemented by the Department of Transportation. In 1972, Serge Seguin of France wrote his Masters thesis on the European moped. After receiving two mopeds and a small amount of money from a company called Motobecane, Seguin traveled throughout the United States promoting the vehicle. After lobbying Congress on its fuel efficiency benefits, Seguin was able to get more than 30 states to devise a specific vehicle classification for the bikes.
The bikes had very small engines and often could not exceed 40 miles per hours. What they could do, however, was run for up to 220 miles on one tank of gas. Because of the problems caused by the aforementioned energy crisis, mopeds caught on like wildfire, with more than 250,000 people in the United States owning one in 1977. Alas, as gas prices eventually moved down and automobile companies devised more efficient cars, the mopeds popularity and usefulness began to fade.
Platform Shoes
In Asia, I noticed platforms were everywhere. Stopping over in Tokyo for a few hours, I could not resist asking a couple of Japanese women if I could take a picture of their shoes. I also managed to snap a few photos in Indonesia. But, it is a new year, and I wonder how much longer the platform shoe will be in style. I fear that the flat soled will reign again. I wish I could say that platforms will always be currently available at your favorite shoe store, but fashion is too fast. I'm still lingering on the taste from the 1600s. The prevalence of platforms in Asia has made me rethink the fate of the platform shoe in 1998. So strap on your platforms and teeter through the styles of the 1600s, 1930s, 1970s, and 1990s with me. Maybe the platform shoes' long history will convince you that they, indeed, will always be around.
The video game
revolution began with Pong in 1972, which spawned Atari (1978) and those little hand-held football games.
Disco Music
Saturday Night Fever (John Travolta), ABBA, Donna Summer, The Village People, Dance Fever, Bee Gees.
Acupuncture
Found by President Nixon in 1971 on a trip to Mainland China. He returned home and brought with him a new acceptance of many things Chinese - including approaches to medicine. Its proponents believe that an imbalance in the body's tch'i (energy), the result of illness or injury, can be adjusted by inserting needles into certain strategic acupuncture points. There are over 900 of these points. Many have claimed that acupuncture works when no other type of medical treatment or procedure seems to do the trick. Also has been used to control diet and as an anesthetic.
EST Therapy
When feeling insecure or unhappy with your life, people would have others just verbally abuse and degrade them until you felt worthless. Then they would be rebuilt and reborn as a useful member of society. Basic tenets of EST is (Erhard Seminars Training), a therapy developed by an encyclopedia salesman named Warner Erhard. His first training sessions were held in a small apartment, soon to take place in the conference rooms of expensive hotels.
Glass Eating
Glass was not safe around Tim Rossovich, an all-pro linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles. Rossovich liked to show the public how tough he was by eating beer mugs and light bulbs. As an undergrad at the University of Southern California, Rossovich was infamous for pulling crazy stunts. But it wasn't until his pro career was underway that his strangest stunt received media coverage. He amazed spectators with his ability to snack on glass without killing himself. Then a sophomore at Harvard University decided to challenge his prowess by munching a light bulb himself. Soon, other students were following suit. But Harvard authorities quickly terminated the budding trend, and the fun was over.
Rocky Horror Picture Show
For well over 25 years, fans have flocked to midnight screenings of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. The original movie came out in 1973 as a British musical. It was then turned into a motion picture, which was released around the time of the dying our glam rock scene. Then, it was to be screened "only" at midnight, later the decision turned out to be a stroke of genius. Midnight movie going had become popular among young film buffs and turned the movie into an instant cult classic.
Cork Pop Guns
When you would shoot it, the cork would pop out and hit your assailant
Dashboard Hula Girls
A small hula girl doll that attached to your car dashboard and danced when the car popular by California surfers.
Happy Days - The "Fonz"
A hit tv show about life in the 1950’s. Fonzie was a James Dean type ultra cool guy who rode a motorcycle and could always get a date.
Mexican Jumping Beans
Beans that jump around. Check out the link below to see how the work.
Puka Shells
Popularized in Hawaii as well as other surf towns by the surfers.
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RALEIGH CHOPPER.........................I've just bought one for soph...as when she was a kid her parents could never afford to buy her one.....................the new chopper in red and yellow as been updated...so i have ordered her one to take her back to the daze of the 70's... 
nige n soph
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sing......3 is the magic number
nige n soph
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sing......3 is the magic number
Sex God
No he just has a photograghic memory daffodilbbw 
To the up and comming generations cassette and video tapes are laughable. Wont be long when before we laugh at telephones not having video screens. who'de have thought we only had 4 TV channels. Did it used to take hours even days to send a letter? or was that a nightmare I should have forgotten? Things move too fast these days.
Sex God
I'm too young to remember the 70s properly 
Role on the 80s!!!!!!!!!!!! :beer: :crazy: :karaoke: :smoke: :thrilled: :confused2: :inlove:
Role on the 80s!!!!!!!!!!!! :beer: :crazy: :karaoke: :smoke: :thrilled: :confused2: :inlove:
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To the up and comming generations cassette and video tapes are laughable. Wont be long when before we laugh at telephones not having video screens. who'de have thought we only had 4 TV channels. Did it used to take hours even days to send a letter? or was that a nightmare I should have forgotten? Things move too fast these days.
4 channels,
when we first got our telly we only had two channels, and there was no such thing as daytime ( or 24 hour TV) and colour had yet to be invented
:roll: :roll: Kids today , don't know theys born
Gilbert
Who remembers "clackers"!
For those who don't know they were a novelty toy comprised of two hardened clear plastic coloured balls attached to either end on a piece of cord with a plastic tab in the middle. The idea was to hold the plastic tab which acted as a fulcrum and by rapid motion of the foreram cause the two balls to hit each other and rebound in rapid motion and constant rhythmn - hence their name "clackers", because of the sound they made.
I remember they were a craze in the early 70s and dozens of kids would be out on the streets all at once with their clackers creating a din. This toy used to frighten me a bit as you were liable to get a bruised wrist when it went wrong and I doubt today that they would be alowed to be sold as they would probably contravene health and safety regulations.
For those who don't know they were a novelty toy comprised of two hardened clear plastic coloured balls attached to either end on a piece of cord with a plastic tab in the middle. The idea was to hold the plastic tab which acted as a fulcrum and by rapid motion of the foreram cause the two balls to hit each other and rebound in rapid motion and constant rhythmn - hence their name "clackers", because of the sound they made.
I remember they were a craze in the early 70s and dozens of kids would be out on the streets all at once with their clackers creating a din. This toy used to frighten me a bit as you were liable to get a bruised wrist when it went wrong and I doubt today that they would be alowed to be sold as they would probably contravene health and safety regulations.
Sex God
I remember the goodies..................and I think there was a piece in the paper to say that a man died laughing, as he had been watching the programme at the time.
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I remember the goodies..................and I think there was a piece in the paper to say that a man died laughing, as he had been watching the programme at the time.
There was certainly a guy that died watching one of the Morecambe and Wise 70s Christmas shows,
may well have been the Stripper Breakfast routine
Gilbert
Was it the seventies when I sported red nylon Muppet Show trousers and ate copious amounts of KrissKross (is that right?) - a delicious cheesy snack?? Maybe it was the 80's ....
We had a purple and black paisley carpet on the stairs - also nylon, which really burned when you slid down it. As I often did!
We had a purple and black paisley carpet on the stairs - also nylon, which really burned when you slid down it. As I often did!
Sex God
Ah mr FC memories come flooding back the seventies were terrific if I had a choice of going back to a certain age then 15 years old in the seveties would be my choice .....jeez did I have fun
