Comments for 70s life

Comment on What was your favorite look? by jamie

jamie — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:09:23 +0000

I had these blue bell bottoms a white t-shirt and a brown leather vest with tassels on the bottom of it and i had white sneakers i wore that outfit alot of the time and sometimes i would try to copy farrah fawcett and do my hair like hers but most of the time in was kind of wavy

Comment on Did you play a musical instrument? Still do? by jamie

jamie — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:54:09 +0000

I played the guitar just until imoved out of my parents house they loved the way i played i would play songs on christmas and thanksgiving and sometimes on easter before church oh those were the good old days

Comment on How did it feel when you got your first set of wheels? by jamie

jamie — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:48:15 +0000

Wow i got my first car when i was 20 years old in 1977 i think it was a 1968 chevelle ss 396 i had that until 1983 it was the best car i ever had and i remember being so excited i almost crashed it when i took it out for a drive. i took that thing everywhere i went when i moved out of my parents house in the same year(1977) it was used to move some of my personal things but we had to use my cousin martys 1971 ford pickup to move my bed and other heavy furniture

Comment on What were your favorite TV shows in the 70s? by jamie

jamie — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:41:38 +0000

I was 19 in 1976 when charlies angels first started but me and my sisters would watch charlies angles my parents hated charlies angels they said it there was too much violence and sometime we wouldnt be able to watch it at all so we would sneak out my bedroom window and go to my friends house and watch it there and be home before our parents noticed we had alot of fun in the 70s

Comment on Who was your best friend in the 70s? Have you kept up with him/her? by jamie

jamie — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:36:35 +0000

My best friend was named susan olsen we met in our freshman year of high school our parents were good friends and we went to church all the time together i remember we hated church and our mothers would curl our hair and make us put on the most ugliest dresses we would go down satirs in the church and go into the bathroom and wet our hair down and try our best to make it look better and then we would go back upstairs and sit down with our angry parents susan and i are still best friends in fact we are roomates now

Comment on Did your vision of the future in the 70s come true? by jamie

jamie — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:30:25 +0000

I remember in 1973 i was 16 years old and me and my 4 siblings would try to scare eachother with how the future would turn out. in my house we had an attic and my parents never wanted us up there because it was old and smelly and dangerous but we never listened to them we would go up there and me and my two older brothers would scare my two younger sisters about the future we said that all the air was going to go away and all the trees were going to die and we woundn’t have any water or animals and we were all going to die they ran down the attic stairs all the time crying we thought it was funniest thing ever

Comment on Were you trouble, or a goodie-two-shoes? by jamie

jamie — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:15:29 +0000

I wasnt trouble but i somehow always got into it. I was a goodie two shoes in the sixties when i was a kid and in 1970 when i turned 13 we moved to portland…thats where the trouble started for me i think i just started junior high and alot of kids from school lived in my neighborhood and they were punks and i was a fighter so when me and my sister stacy took the bottles up to the store a kid grabbed stacies bottles and started to run i got so angry i dropped my bottles and took off after the punk i remember jumping on his back and just beating on him i returned home with a black eye and a fat lip and my new skirt was ripped but i didnt care ever since then i have been a fighter but no i never was a trouble maker trouble always seemed to find me.

Comment on Were you trouble, or a goodie-two-shoes? by kissfan71

kissfan71 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:53:43 +0000

I wasn’t trouble, but I looked for it. I was that kid who was always trying to belong to something, and always looked up to the “bad kids”. There was a guy that lived across the street who turned me on to KISS, Cheap Trick, Bad Company, etc…My mother did NOT like him at all, and always warned me to stay away from him.

Fast forward to 2009, and here I am. I have been in several bands (a couple of them have been decently known), played more shows than I can count, recorded on 11 CDs (at this point. getting ready to do more with my current band), and generally had more fun with the music that I was turned onto as a kid than pretty much anyone I know.

Where is the “troublemaker” from across the street who turned me onto these bands? He has spent considerable time in and out of jail, still (to my knowledge anyway) lives in the same town, not far from the same house, unemployed and generally not doing well.

Comment on Drive Ins were fun! by kissfan71

kissfan71 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:45:12 +0000

I was a bit late to the drive-in party, considering I grew up in the ’70s in a small town. The closest one to my family was over two hours away. However, I do remember a few occasions over my early life when my dad would scrape together a few extra bucks and take us. I have just recently (two years ago) moved to Tucson, Arizona and there is a fully active and apparently thriving drive-in where you pay $8 at the gate, find your spot, and tune your stereo to a specific station given to you as you pull in. The money you pay at the gate gets you two movies. These movies are just after the inital first run, but long before they hit the cheapie theaters. It’s an awesome piece of nostalgia, mixed (if you have a good system in your car) with modern technology.

Comment on Have your tastes in music changed since the 70s? by arlene57

arlene57 — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:08:30 +0000

As my brother Luis, I always was a listener too, but I liked singing, that was my passion. Although I was more into latin or Spanish music than my brothers I grew up with hits such as Yummie, Yummie, the Beatles, The Carpenters and The Monkeys and many more. My taste? Still the same. When I listen again to those songs I relive the good times around it. Like a time machine, back to the past.
How can I forget when it is so impregnated in my soul and my heart… Nothing like that music, nothing like tose beats, nothing like those lyrics.
Exciting as Yummie Yummie being the first song I dance with the first boy I liked at the first party I went and WITHOUT MY MOM!.
Nothing like the 1970’s!